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Next semester I'll be teaching our first semester course on the #archaeology of the #MiddleEast, which feels like quite a responsibility – for most students it will be their very first class at university, and their first study of the field they've signed up to spend the next 3-5 years of their life on!
So, first week, what do I have them read? What's the most inspiring, short text on the #AncientNearEast?
It was a pleasant surprise to discover that the new #Academic Anthology "Rethinking the Qur’ān in Late Antiquity" has a few chapters on Ancient #Arabian #Polytheism
#AncientArabia #Antiquity #LateAntiquity #AncientNearEast #ArabianPaganism #ArabianPolytheism #AncientReligions
#Pagan #Paganism #Polytheist
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111342306/html
This is a fascinating episode of The Ancients #Podcast about Fall of #Babylon
#Mesopotamia #AncientNearEast #Babylonia #AncientWorld
https://shows.acast.com/the-ancients/episodes/fall-of-babylon
Archaeoethnologica: HATTANNAS - Festschrift Theo Van der Hout
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#Hittite #Indoeuropeanstudies #Anatolia #epigraphy #linguistics #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #hittitology #Antiquity #book #openaccess
Archaeoethnologica: HATTANNAS - Festschrift Theo Van der Hout
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#Hittite #Indoeuropeanstudies #Anatolia #epigraphy #linguistics #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #hittitology #Antiquity #book #openaccess
Archaeoethnologica: HATTANNAS - Festschrift Theo Van der Hout
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#Hittite #Indoeuropeanstudies #Anatolia #epigraphy #linguistics #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #hittitology #Antiquity #book #openaccess
Archaeoethnologica: HATTANNAS - Festschrift Theo Van der Hout
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#Hittite #Indoeuropeanstudies #Anatolia #epigraphy #linguistics #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #hittitology #Antiquity #book #openaccess
Archaeoethnologica: HATTANNAS - Festschrift Theo Van der Hout
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#Hittite #Indoeuropeanstudies #Anatolia #epigraphy #linguistics #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #hittitology #Antiquity #book #openaccess
The #Assyrian Impact on #Urarṭu - Toponyms and Ideological Motifs
#AncientNearEast #AsiaMinor #AncientWorld
http://saa.uaic.ro/wp-content/uploads/XXX.2.3.pdf
#Nabataean Religion and Its #Pantheon Through Pre-Islamic and Early Islam Sources: al-Lāt, al-ʽUzzā and #Manāt
#AncientNearEast #AncientReligions
https://www.academia.edu/45086538/Nabataean_Religion_and_Its_Pantheon_Through_Pre_Islamic_and_Early_Islam_Sources_al_Lāt_al_ʽUzzā_and_Manāt
Fars/Persis in western Iran was the home province of the Achaemenid empire, with a similar land area to Newfoundland. When I received my PhD in 2018, how many rural sites from Achaemenid Fars had been excavated and published (orders of magnitude only, I will post the answer Wednesday). No web searching please! #iranistik #iranianStudies #ancientNearEast #archaeology
The #Arabian Wheel of the Year-just NOT like Wicca!
“…Though in earlier #Babylonian times #Aries was represented as a hired laborer rather than a ram.”
#Nabataea #Nabataeans #ArabianPaganism #Archaeology #AncientNearEast #AncientNearEastReligion #Polytheism #AncientReligion #Astrology
https://medium.com/@arabianpaganism/an-arabian-wheel-of-the-year-5c510b984a66
ICYMI: 🏺 How did light shape religious experience in ancient Mesopotamian temples?
We investigated this by reconstructing and analysing lighting conditions in four common types of sacred architecture from the ancient Near East.
Using standardised 3D models, we simulated how natural light entered temple spaces.
🔍 Read more about our approach and results here:
🔗 https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item/lighting-conditions-in-sacral-architecture/
#DigitalArchaeology #AncientNearEast #Mesopotamia #3DModeling #SacredArchitecture #Archaeology #OpenScience
My dear colleagues from Routes de l'Orient are organizing a 3-days symposium on the archaeology of the Arabic peninsula at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris next days. They can be followed under these links:
DAY 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_NxkjHres
DAY 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUjcJIUt2LI
DAY 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJI2Ws4LQjI
The programm is here : https://www.surlesroutesdarabie.com/
#archeodon #archaeology #archéologie #ancientneareast #ancientsouthwestasia #histodon #ancientroads
Archaeoethnologica: Wine Cultures, Gandhāra & beyond Culturas do Vino, Gandhāra e Além - Livro
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#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientIndia #hellenistic #symposium #books #feast #wine #wineconsumption #Caucasus #AncientHistory #AncientNearEast #openaccess #wineconsumpition #AncientIndia #wineculture
Archaeoethnologica: Wine Cultures, Gandhāra & beyond Culturas do Vino, Gandhāra e Além - Livro
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#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientIndia #hellenistic #symposium #books #feast #wine #wineconsumption #Caucasus #AncientHistory #AncientNearEast #openaccess #wineconsumpition #AncientIndia #wineculture
Archaeoethnologica: Wine Cultures, Gandhāra & beyond Culturas do Vino, Gandhāra e Além - Livro
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Archaeoethnologica: Wine Cultures, Gandhāra & beyond Culturas do Vino, Gandhāra e Além - Livro
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#Archaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #AncientIndia #hellenistic #symposium #books #feast #wine #wineconsumption #Caucasus #AncientHistory #AncientNearEast #openaccess #wineconsumpition #AncientIndia #wineculture
The Story of #Nuhašše - In The Shadow of Giants
#AncientLevant #Ancient#Syria #AncientNearEast #BronzeAge
https://youtu.be/8dBN0uQtxy8
"She Who Treads on Water": Sacred/Secular in #Phoenician #Religion
#Phoenicians #Levant #AncientLevant #Phoenecia #AncientNearEast #WestAsia
https://www.academia.edu/1819367/_She_Who_Treads_on_Water_Sacred_Secular_in_Phoenician_Religion
Mythological Traditions from Late Bronze Age #Ugarit to the #Levant (Phoenicia) in the 1st Millennium BCE
#AncientNearEast #BronzeAge #Phoenicia #Mythology #AncientReligions
https://www.academia.edu/45390507/
153 views in less than a week, of the OA article on the Archaeology of the Vedi River Valley in the Bulletin of @asoresearch Thank you everyone! #ancientneareast Read at: https://doi.org/10.1086/732090
A little experimental style with the first and the last plans of the Sin temple, 3rd millenium Khafajeh.
Languages from the World of the Bible
"The breakthrough of the alphabetic script early in the first millennium BCE coincides with the appearance of several new languages and civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine. Together, they form the cultural setting in which ancient Israel, the Hebrew Bible, and, transformed by Hellenism, the New Testament took shape."
Gzella, H. 2011. Languages from the World of the Bible. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781934078631/html
#OpenAccess #OA #AncientNearEast #Ancient #Classics #Language #Languages #History #Histodon #Histodons #OldTestament #Theology #Religion #Bible #Read #Reading #Academia #Academic #Academics #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @theology @religion @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (83)
Another article on the subject of writing in ancient #Israel / #Judah :
Matthieu Richelle, "Elusive Scrolls: Could Any Hebrew Literature Have Been Written Prior to the Eighth Century BCE?" Vetus Testamentum 66 (2016): 556-94. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44647541
I appreciate when scholars say we know less than we think, but then his conclusion seems more positive than his argumentation to that point.
As a follow-up, I found:
Brian B. Schmidt, ed. Contextualizing Israel’s Sacred Writing: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production (Society of Biblical Literature, 2015).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1647cmz
#HebrewBible #AncientNearEast #ANE
Is there any good social history of writing in Canaan/Israel/Judah/Edom/Moab/Ammon before 500 BCE? (I'm not looking for Egypt or Mesopotamia.) How many people were reading and writing, in what contexts, for what purposes?
#Egyptian cultural impact on north-west #Arabia in the second and first millennia BC
#AncientArabia #BronzeAge #AncientNearEast #AncientEgypt
https://www.academia.edu/5224444/Egyptian_cultural_impact_on_north_west_Arabia_in_the_second_and_first_millennia_BC
International Symposium organized by my fellow students of Routes de l'Orient, in Paris, this december: https://rdorient.hypotheses.org/1442
#ane #ancientneareast #ancientsouthwestasia #colloque #routesdelorient #arabia
Well, not really beautiful, but here we go:
Doing some (imprecise but internally coherent) georeferencing of plans from Tell Chuera. There is a strange lack of a nice and precise general plan for recent excavations at Chuera (which are extremely well documented otherwise), but the plans of the old digs are giving a good compensation.
#Chuera #Khuera #ancientneareast #archaeodon #qgis #ancientsouthwestasia
When you're not totally sure about what is truly inside your graph:
An important publication about the formation of an Iraki lake, the Najaf Sea :
"The Najaf Sea itself formed at some time after c. 800 cal. BC" : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/esp.5779
#ancientneareast #ancientsouthwestasia #archeology #geology #ironage #iraq #irak
Okay now is the time I really appreciate the cross-grids.
#ggplot2 #facet_grid #postgresql #ancientneareast #ceramictechnology
Making a few graphs with R (with data prepared on Postgres). Not always as straightforward as it could, but pretty satisfying when it works:
#r #rstudio #postgresql #archaeodon #ancientneareast #ancientsouthwestasia
"Using metallurgical technologies from the Wadi Arabah (Jordan/Israel) as a case study, we demonstrate a gradual technological development (13th-10th c. BCE) followed by a human agency-triggered punctuated “leap” (late-10th c. BCE) simultaneously across the entire region (an area of ~2000 km2)."
Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, et al. (2019) Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0221967. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221967 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #PeerReviewed #Archaeology #Metallurgy #Archaeodons #Science #STEM #Ancient #AncientNearEast #Anthropology #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @anthropology @archaeodons @science
Henri de Contenson (right) and his cool haircut on the field, 1955
Also a nice puppy.
Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture
Collectively, the articles here provide well-documented challenges to conventional wisdom about that for which people actually used Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite, and Hebrew. This conference was the first to bring leading philologists together with anthropologists and social theorists to explore what writing meant to politics in the ancient Near East.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#AncientNearEast
#languages
#writing
#politics
Détail du décor incisé d'une coupe-support du cimetière d'Ur, 3e millénaire BC
Détail du décor incisé ("triangle à remplissage dense") d'une coupe-support mésopotamienne, Abu Salabikh, ex-Oriental Institute (désormais ISACWANA) de Chicago
Adams 1981 ("Heartland of cities", p. 53) and the beginning of spatial analysis and discussion of its limitations in ANE archaeology :
