On the Margin of the Euphrates - Settlement and Land Use at Tell Es-sweyhat and in the Upper Tabqa Area, Syria

The present study forms part of the author's long-term research strategy that is aimed at examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information from surface surveys, and at the same time, the integration of cultural change within both the local environmental context and long-term environmental change. It must be emphasised that the surveys under discussion, collectively called the Sweyhat Survey, were small and rather detailed studies of some 60 sq. km of land around Tell es-Sweyhat, Syria, and the thirty sites therein on the east bank of the Euphrates River; the surveys were conducted in 1974, 1991, and 1992. The survey area is nested within a broader "area of interest," which comprises the area of the upper Lake Tabqa salvage project.

About the author

Tony Wilkinson is currently Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He has been conducting landscape studies of the Near East for the last 30 years and has published extensively in this area, including the recent Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East (University of Arizona Press, 2003).

Summary

Examining the growth of towns, rural settlements, and the rural landscape over much of the last ten thousand years. Emphasis is upon the retrieval of information from surface surveys, and at the same time, the integration of cultural change within both the local environmental context and long-term environmental change.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Wilkinson, T. J. Wilkinson, Tony Wilkinson, Tony J. Wilkinson
• Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2005
• EAN: 9781885923295
• ISBN: 978-1-885923-29-5
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 306 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1430 g
• Series: Oriental Institute Publications; Oriental Institute Publication; Oriental Institute Publications; ORIENTAL INSTITUTE PUBLICATION
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity