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Documents
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1998
Description
The salvage excavations of several sites in the Syrian Middle Habur valley let us draw an interesting portrait of the particularly dense occupation during the 3rd millennium. For the preceding millennium however, the Middle Habur did not experience a comparable occupation density. Currently, Mashnaqa is the only site where the excavations allowed study of the evolution of the built space over a long period, from the 5th to 3rd millennium. After the abandonment of the Obeid village uncovered by our Danish colleagues, we see a re-occupation in the post-Obeid in a particularly well-conserved tripartite plan house. Later, northern Early Uruk as well as Middle Uruk occupations show several habitat phases, characterised in particular by a remarkable density of circular cooking ovens. A Middle Uruk terrace indicates an evolution towards monumental building structures, but this terrace is abandoned before the end of the period. In the Late Uruk, a type of small circular fortress is built, with original and problematic characteristics, accompanied by a bastion or a new terrace; this ensemble dominates a village made of spacious houses. The disappearance of this fortress accompanies the decline of this final Uruk period.
10 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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Publié le
01 janvier 1998
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Langue
Français
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Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo