EAN: 9783447117555

EXPLORING DARK AGES KARTONIERT (TB)

This book is the result of a workshop organized by the editors on April 5  2018  during the
11th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Munich 
Germany. The workshop's goal was to discuss the archaeological traces  or lack thereof  of the
so-called transitional periods in the long history of Northern Mesopotamia  from the Bronze Age
to the Islamic period. What emerges from the contributions  which differ in terms of chronology
spatial extent  and research subject - from single sites to long term investigation  from
material culture to historical approaches -  goes beyond the traditional approach to the Dark
Ages  emphasizing phenomena of resilience and evolution  rather than drastic and abrupt
changes. From the expansion and contraction of settlement patterns to the spatial redefinition
of urban spaces and the persistence of certain ceramic horizons through time  the authors put
back the material evidence on the agenda of the archaeological research on the Dark Ages. The
book offers a unique view  although from different angles  of some of the in-between periods of
Mesopotamian history: The Middle-Late Bronze transition  the so-called post-Assyrian period 
the evolution of late antiquity material culture into the Islamic period. Thus  the authors aim
at redefining the concept of transition in the light of new or revised data from fundamental
projects in Syria  Iraq  and Iraqi Kurdistan.

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