Monday, April 21, 2025

OrientLab Inclusive Archaeology

OrientLab.net is a research website about the archaeology of the ancient Near East and about new methodologies for the study of ancient societies and their environments. The website is run by the Chair of Near Eastern Archaeology of the Department of History and Cultures, Bologna University and is open to the cooperation with all scholars and students. The Editor is Nicolò Marchetti, the Webmaster is Silvano Bertossa, the Web Designer is Valentina Orrù.

Inclusive Archaeology describes an approach based on an integration of views, techniques and methods. Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and hybridization become part of an anthropological perspective in which archaeology is seen as fully integrated within the broader frame of social sciences. Science accepts that different disciplines do not contribute to historical and behavioral explanations simply by an accumulation of knowledge, but also contaminating each other through shared objectives and views.

At the same time, science acknowledges multiculturality, meaning specific values and approaches elaborated outside the Western world.

There is no truth in science, but only doubts and (new) questions. Social sciences may be deemed scientific when they allow the possibility of verifying each intellectual process at each step.

Inclusive Archaeology is based on openness, towards local and regional communities (science does not live in isolation but has an impact on and needs feedback from those communities), towards the scientific community (dissemination of newly produced data is the core mission of scientists), towards the global community (digital technologies must be used to build new forms of integrated datasets which may be used freely through the web). [NM]

Tilmen Höyük

The Tilmen Höyük Project is about an excavation in south-eastern Turkey which took place under the auspices of the University of Bologna and that of Istanbul between 2003 and 2008.

Karkemish 3D

The Karkemish 3D Visualization Project aims at virtually recreating in a 3D environment, based on Unreal Engine 4 incorporating the photogrammetric models, both monuments and materials of the Neo Hittite period at the site.

Taşlı Geçit Höyük

The  Taşlı Geçit Höyük Project is about an excavation in south-eastern Turkey which took place under the auspices of the University of Bologna between 2009 and 2010.

EblaChora

The Ebla Chora Project (ECP) analyzes the archaeological landscape around Ebla in Syria, testing theories and models about the rise and structure of the early state in the Levant.

OrientDams

The project aims at providing a detailed visual assessment on the impact of dams on archaeological sites in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA).

Islahiye Valley

The project is an attempt at visualizing a shared environment from antiquity to the present on the basis of data collected between 1958 and 2010 by the University of Istanbul and that of Bologna.

Samark-Land

The Uzbek-Italian Archaeological Project (UIAP) aims at investigating the history of ancient Samarkand in relation to the development and transformation of its territory. 

PastWeb

PastWeb hosts old websites of scientific interest in order to keep their web memory. Hosting is free and anybody can submit a request.

 

Publications

International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

The International Congresses on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East are organized every two years by the scientific community of scholars working on and in the Near East and studying therein cognitive, material and environmental evidence from the most remote phases until the Islamic period within a multidisciplinary approach.

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1st ICAANE

Rome, 18-23 May 1998

2nd ICAANE

Copenhagen, 22-26 May 2000

3rd ICAANE

Paris, 15-19 April 2002

4th ICAANE

Berlin, 29 March – 3 April 2004

5th ICAANE

Madrid, 3-8 April 2006

6th ICAANE

Rome, 5-10 May 2008

7th ICAANE

London, 12-16 April 2010

8th ICAANE

Warsaw, 30 April – 4 May 2012

9th ICAANE

Basel, 9-13 June 2014

10th ICAANE

Vienna, 25-29 April 2016

11th ICAANE

Munich, 3-7 April 2018

12th ICAANE

Bologna, 6-9 April 2021

13th ICAANE

Copenhagen, 22-26 May 2023

14th ICAANE

Lyon, 2nd-7th June 2025


Proceedings of the ICAANE



 

 

Taşli Geçit Höyük Report on the Excavations and Survey of the Outskirts of the Main Mound

Federico Zaina

GRPOP 1
2021

formato 21 x 29,7 cm; punto metallico
52 pagine, in b/n
ISBN 978-88-7849-165-6

Available online

 

Taşli Geçit Höyük. The Geophysical and Topographical Surveys at the Site

Federica Boschi, Michele Silani

GRPOP 2
2021

formato 21 x 29,7 cm; punto metallico
24 pagine, in b/n
ISBN 978-88-7849-169-4

 

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Tilmen Höyük: a Summary of the Results and a Photographic Atlas of Alkim’s Excavations of the 2nd Millennium BC Layers

Refik Duru

GRPOP 1
2024

formato 21 x 29,7 cm; punto metallico
80 pagine, in b/n
ISBN 978-88-7849-199-1

Available online

 

 

Excavations at Karkemish IV. The Neo-Assyrian Well in Area C

Nicolò Marchetti (ed.)

OrientLab Series Maior, 8
2025
formato 21x29,7 cm
256 pagine in b/n e colori
ISBN: 978-88-7849-202-8 (edizione cartacea)
ISBN: 978-88-7849-203-5 (edizione online)

Available online

Acknowledgments - Chapter 1. The Neo-Assyrian palatial compound in Area C and the well P.5347 (Nicolò Marchetti) - Chapter 2. The stratigraphy of well P.5347 - 2.1 The stratigraphic phasing of area C South (Sara Pizzimenti) - 2.2 The construction technique, the inner stratigraphy and the distribution of materials in the well (Marzia Cavriani) - Chapter 3. Administrative materials from well P.5347 - 3.1 Seals and sealings (Claudia D’Orazio), 3.2 Clay tokens (Marzia Cavriani) - 3.3 Stone weight (Carlo Zaccagnini) - Chapter 4. The pottery assemblage from well P.5347 (Sara Pizzimenti) - 4.1 Subphase 1 - 4.2 Subphase 2 - Chapter 5. The material culture from well P.5347 - 5.1 Stone vessels (Claudia D’Orazio) - 5.2 Metal objects (Vittoria Cardini) - 5.3 Clay figurines (Barbara Bolognani) - 5.4 Astragalus bones (Elena Maini) - 5.5 Miscellaneous small finds (Claudia D’Orazio) - Chapter 6. Inscribed objects from well P.5347 - 6.1 Sargon II’s Karkemish Cylinder Inscription (Gianni Marchesi) - 6.2 A stone bowl with cuneiform inscription (Gianni Marchesi) - 6.3 A hieroglyphic Luwian orthostat fragment (Hasan Peker) - Chapter 7. Bioarchaeology of well P.5347 - 7.1 Carpological remains (Marialetizia Carra) - 7.2 Animal remains (Elena Maini) - 7.3 Human remains (Rula Shafiq) - Abbreviations -References - Plates

 

 

 

Schriften zu Vindonissa und seinen Truppen – GPV X

Victorine von Gonzenbach

Dieser Band gesammelter Aufsätze erschien zum 70. Geburtstag von Frau Victorine von Gonzenbach, die sich um die Erforschung von Vindonissa speziell verdient gemacht hat. Neben militärischen Aspekten versuchte sie auch ein Bild von der Vindonisserin zu vermitteln.

Editor: Gesellschaft pro Vindonissa
Format: A4
Published in Brugg
Jahr: 1991
Language/s Deutsch
DOI: 10.19218/39075493