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Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World
Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills. However, prehistoric tell-dwelling communities are too often approached from narrow local perspectives or discussed within strict time- and culture-specific debates. There is a great potential to learn from such ubiquitous archaeological manifestations as the physical outcome of cross-cutting dynamics and comparable underlying forces irrespective of time and space.

This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. Thus, the book intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science –based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, the volume's scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age–, and covers a very large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The core of the volume comprises a selection of the most remarkable contributions to the session with a similar title celebrated in the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held at Barcelona in 2018. In addition, the book includes invited chapters to round out underrepresented areas and periods in the EAA session with relevant research programs in the Old World. To accomplish such a cross-cultural course, the book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.
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Current Approaches to Tells in the Prehistoric Old World
Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills. However, prehistoric tell-dwelling communities are too often approached from narrow local perspectives or discussed within strict time- and culture-specific debates. There is a great potential to learn from such ubiquitous archaeological manifestations as the physical outcome of cross-cutting dynamics and comparable underlying forces irrespective of time and space.

This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. Thus, the book intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science –based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, the volume's scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age–, and covers a very large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The core of the volume comprises a selection of the most remarkable contributions to the session with a similar title celebrated in the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held at Barcelona in 2018. In addition, the book includes invited chapters to round out underrepresented areas and periods in the EAA session with relevant research programs in the Old World. To accomplish such a cross-cultural course, the book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.
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Overview

Deeply stratified settlements are a distinctive site type featuring prominently in diverse later prehistoric landscapes of the Old World. Their massive materiality has attracted the curiosity of lay people and archaeologists alike. Nowadays a wide variety of archaeological projects are tracking the lifestyles and social practices that led to the building-up of such superimposed artificial hills. However, prehistoric tell-dwelling communities are too often approached from narrow local perspectives or discussed within strict time- and culture-specific debates. There is a great potential to learn from such ubiquitous archaeological manifestations as the physical outcome of cross-cutting dynamics and comparable underlying forces irrespective of time and space.

This volume tackles tells and tell-like sites as a transversal phenomenon whose commonalities and divergences are poorly understood yet may benefit from cross-cultural comparison. Thus, the book intends to assemble a representative range of ongoing theory – and science –based fieldwork projects targeting this kind of sites. With the aim of encompassing a variety of social and material dynamics, the volume's scope is diachronic – from the Earliest Neolithic up to the Iron Age–, and covers a very large region, from Iberia in Western Europe to Syria in the Middle East. The core of the volume comprises a selection of the most remarkable contributions to the session with a similar title celebrated in the European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting held at Barcelona in 2018. In addition, the book includes invited chapters to round out underrepresented areas and periods in the EAA session with relevant research programs in the Old World. To accomplish such a cross-cultural course, the book takes a case-based approach, with contributions disparate both in their theoretical foundations – from household archaeology, social agency and formation theory – and their research strategies – including geophysical survey, microarchaeology and high-resolution excavation and dating.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789254860
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Publication date: 11/20/2020
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Antonio Blanco-González is a Lecturer in Prehistory with the University of Salamanca (Spain), (Ph D viva in 2009). He held post-doctoral positions at the Universities of Durham (UK) and Valladolid (Spain). His interests include social archaeology and later European prehistory and has published on these subjects in top-ranked journals.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Learning from Prehistoric Tells Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez Tobias L. Kienlin 1

Part 1 The Building-Up of Tell Materiality

2 Architectural Phases, Use-life Episodes and Taphonomic Processes in Tell Formation: An Approach to Neolithic Tell Halula (Syria) Miguel Molist Quim Sisa Julia Wattez Anna Gómez-Bach 11

3 Re-discovering the Neolithic Landscapes of Western Thessaly. Central Greece Athanasia Krahtopoulou Charles Frederick Hector A. Orengo Anastasia Dimoula Niki Saridaki Stella Kyrillidou Alexandra Livarda Arnau Garcia-Molsosa 25

4 The Old Becomes New: Material Culture and Architectural Continuity on an Anatolian Höyük Sharon R. Steadman Jennifer C. Ross 41

5 Moving Bottom-up: The Case Study of Kakucs-Turján (Hungary) and its Implications for Studies of Multi-layered Bronze Age Settlements in the Carpathian Basin Robert Staniuk Mateusz Jaeger Gabriella Kulcár Nicole Taylor Jakub Niebieszczanski Johannes Müllerer 57

6 Exploring the Bronze Age Tells and Tell-like Settlements from the Eastern Carpathian Basin. Results of a Research Project Florin Gogâltan Alexandra Gavan Marian A. Lie Gruia Fazecas Cristina Cordos Tobias L. Kienlin 73

7 Talking Trash. Reconstructing Activities, Discard and Abandonment at Late Bronze Age Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) Victor Klinkenberg 97

Part 2 The Social Lives of Tells

8 Domestication of Tells: Settlements of the First Farmers in Pelagonia (Macedonia) Goce Naumov 111

9 Tells (and Flat Sites) as Social Agents: A View from Neolithic Greece Stella Souvatzi 125

10 Human Activities on a Late Neolithic Tell-like Settlement Complex of the Hungarian Plain (Öcsöd-Kováshalom) András Füzesi Knut Rassmann Eszter Bánffy Pál Raczky 139

11 The Practice of Everyday Life on a European Bronze Age Tell: Reflections from Százhalombatta-Földvár (Hungary) Joanna Sofaer Marie Louise Stig Sørensen Magdolna Vicze 163

12 Social Life on Bronze Age Tells. Outline of a Practice-oriented Approach Tobias L. Kienlin 173

13 Architecture, Power and Everyday Life in the Iron Age of North-eastern Iberia. Research from 1985 to 2019 on the Tell-like Fortress of Els Vilars (Arbeca, Lleida, Spain) Joan B. López Emili Junyent Natalia Alonso 189

Part 3 Concluding Remarks

14 Then, Now, to Come - A Commentary John Chapman 211

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