The increased number of archaeological activities, underway as a resut of the projected construction of the Ilısu dam to be built along the Tigris river in southeastern Anatolia, have brought to light numerous structures asociated with the material culture of the late third millennium to mid second millennium BC. The assemblages are characterised by a local variety of pottery, teh co-called 'Red Brown Wash Ware', usually found in contexts associated with materials similar to those available from contemporaneous periods in nortehrn Mesopotamia, northern Syria and Anatolia. As a consequence, this paper investigates the apparent cultural interactions which took place between the Mesopotamian and Anatolian regions during the above-mentioned period, drawing on recent data obtained at the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe located along the Upper Tigris river valley in southeastern Anatolia. Through this overview, an additional objective is to bring to a broader public the material culture of this relativel little known yet indreasingly significant region of the ancient Near East.
Hirbemerdon Tepe: a late third to mid second millennium BC settlement of the upper Tigris valley
D'Agostino A
2007-01-01
Abstract
The increased number of archaeological activities, underway as a resut of the projected construction of the Ilısu dam to be built along the Tigris river in southeastern Anatolia, have brought to light numerous structures asociated with the material culture of the late third millennium to mid second millennium BC. The assemblages are characterised by a local variety of pottery, teh co-called 'Red Brown Wash Ware', usually found in contexts associated with materials similar to those available from contemporaneous periods in nortehrn Mesopotamia, northern Syria and Anatolia. As a consequence, this paper investigates the apparent cultural interactions which took place between the Mesopotamian and Anatolian regions during the above-mentioned period, drawing on recent data obtained at the site of Hirbemerdon Tepe located along the Upper Tigris river valley in southeastern Anatolia. Through this overview, an additional objective is to bring to a broader public the material culture of this relativel little known yet indreasingly significant region of the ancient Near East.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
