A history of Syria in one hundred sites / / edited by Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kanjou, Youssef,; Tsuneki, Akira, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 451 pages) :; illustrations, maps

This volume presents the long history of Syria through a jouney of the most important and recently-excavated archaeological sites. The sites cover over 1.8 million years and all regions in Syria; 110 academics have contributed information on 103 excavations for this volume.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Significance of Syria in Human History -- Youssef Kanjou and Akira Tsuneki -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Prehistory -- 1. El Kowm Oasis (Homs) -- Reto Jagher, Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer -- 2. Dederiyeh Cave (Aleppo) -- Takeru Akazawa -- Yoshihiro Nishiaki -- 3. Wadi Mushkuna Rockshelter (Damascus) -- Nicholas J. Conard -- 4. Baaz Rockshelter (Damascus) -- Nicholas J. Conard -- 5. Kaus Kozah Cave (Damascus) -- Nicholas J. Conard -- 6. Abu Hureyra (Raqqa) -- Andrew M. T. Moore -- 7. Qarassa (Sweida) -- Frank Braemer -- Juan J. Ibanez and Xavier Terradas -- 8. Mureybet (Raqqa) -- Marie-Claire Cauvin and Danielle Stordeur -- 9. Tell Qaramel (Aleppo) -- Youssef Kanjou -- 10. Jerf el-Ahmar (Aleppo) -- Danielle Stordeur and George Willcox -- 11. Dja'de el-Mughara (Aleppo) -- Eric Coqueugniot -- 12. Tell Halula (Aleppo) -- Miquel Molist -- 13. Tell Aswad (Damascus) -- Danielle Stordeur -- Rima Khawam -- 14. Tell el-Kerkh (Idlib) -- Akira Tsuneki -- 15. Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa) -- Peter M. M. G. Akkermans -- 16. Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Hassake) -- Yoshihiro Nishiaki -- 17. Shir (Hama) -- Karin Bartl -- 18. Tell Kosak Shamali (Aleppo) -- Yoshihiro Nishiaki -- 19. Tell el-'Abr (Aleppo) -- Yayoi Yamazaki -- Hamido Hammade -- 20. Chagar Bazar (Hassake) -- Walter Cruells and Anna Gómez Bach -- 21. Tell Zeidan (Raqqa) -- Anas Al Khabour -- 22. Tell Feres (Hassake) -- Régis Vallet -- Johnny Samuele Baldi -- 23. Tell Ziyadeh (Hassake) -- Frank Hole -- Chapter 2 -- Ancient Syria (Bronze and Iron Ages) -- 24. Tell Beydar / Nabada / Nabatium (Hassake) -- Marc Lebeau -- Antoine Suleiman -- 25. Tell Banat (Aleppo) -- Thomas L. McClellan and Anne Porter -- 26. Tell Mozan/Urkesh (Hassake) -- Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati -- 27. Tell Leilan (Hassake) -- Harvey Weiss.

28. Tell Sheikh Hamad/Dur-Katlimmu/Magdalu (Deir ez-Zor) -- Hartmut Kühne -- 29. Umm el-Marra (Aleppo) -- Glenn M. Schwartz -- 30. Tell Jerablus Tahtani (Aleppo) -- Edgar Peltenburg -- 31. Tell Al-Rawda (Hama) -- Corinne Castel -- Nazir Awad -- 32. Tell Munbāqa (Raqqa) -- Dittmar Machule -- 33. Tell el-Abd (Raqqa) -- Uwe Finkbeiner -- 34. Tell Ali al-Hajj, Rumeilah (Aleppo) -- Kazuya Shimogama -- 35. Mishrifeh / Qatna (Homs) -- Daniele Morandi Bonacossi -- 36. Mishirfeh/Qatna, Syrian Excavations (Homs) -- Michel Al-Maqdissi -- Massoud Badawi -- 37. Tell Mastuma (Idlib) -- Hidetoshi Tsumoto -- 38. Tell Sakka (Damascus) -- Ahmad Taraqji -- 39. Tell Iris (Lattakia) -- Antoine Suleiman -- Michel Al-Maqdissi -- 40. Tell Toueini (Lattakia) -- Michel Al-Maqdissi -- Massoud Badawi -- Eva Ishaq -- 41. Tell Sianu (Lattakia) -- Michel Al-Maqdissi -- 42. Tell Taban (Hassake) -- Hirotoshi Numoto -- 43. Tell Hammam el-Turkman (Raqqa) -- Diederik J.W. Meijer -- 44. Tell Selenkahiye (Aleppo) -- Diederik J.W. Meijer -- 45. Tell Mohammed Diyab (Hassake) -- Christophe Nicolle -- 46. Tell Tuqan (Idlib) -- Francesca Baffi -- 47. Khirbet Al-Umbashi, Khirbet Dabab and Hebariye (Sweida) -- Frank Braemer -- Ahmad Taraqji -- 48. Tell Masaikh and the Region around Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) -- Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault -- 49. Tell Ashara/Terqa (Deir ez-Zor) -- Olivier Rouault -- 50. Tell Bazi (Aleppo) -- Adelheid Otto and Berthold Einwag -- 51. Tell Afis (Idlib) -- Stefania Mazzoni -- 52. Tell Fekheriye (Hassake) -- Dominik Bonatz -- 53. Mari (Deir ez-Zor) -- Pascal Butterlin -- 54. Tell Nebi Mend (Homs) -- Peter Parr -- 55. Qala'at Halwanji (Aleppo) -- Jesper Eidem -- 56. Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib (Aleppo) -- Guy Bunnens -- 57. Chagar Bazar/Ashnakkum (Hassake) -- Önhan Tunca -- 58. Tell Humeida (Deir ez-Zor) -- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós -- Yaroob al-Abdallah.

59. Tell Qabr Abu al-'Atiq (Deir ez-Zor) -- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós -- Shaker Al-Shbib -- 60. Tulul el-Far, Tell Taouil and Tell el-Kharaze (Damascus) -- Sophie Cluzan -- Ahmad Taraqji -- 61. Tell Massin and Tell al-Nasriyah (Hama) -- Dominique Parayre -- Martin Sauvage -- 62. Tell Arbid (Hassake) -- Piotr Bieliński -- 63. Tell Halaf (Hassake) -- Lutz Martin -- 64. Halawa (Raqqa) -- Jan-Waalke Meyer -- Winfried Orthmann -- 65. Tell Shiyukh Tahtani (Aleppo) -- Gioacchino Falsone -- Paola Sconzo -- 66. Ras Shamra/Ugarit (Lattakia) -- Valérie Matoïan -- Khozama al-Bahloul -- 67. Tell Chuera (Raqqa) -- Jan-Waalke Meyer -- 68. Amrith/Marathos (Tartous) -- Michel Al-Maqdissi -- Eva Ishaq -- 69. Arslan Tash (Aleppo) -- Anas Al Khabour -- 70. Tell Meskene/Emar (Aleppo) -- Ferhan Sakal -- 71. Tell Barri/Kahat (al Hassake) -- Raffaella Pierobon Benoit -- 72. Tell Kazel/Sumur (Tartous) -- Leila Badre -- 73. Tell Qumluq (Aleppo) -- Youssef Kanjou -- Andrew Jamieson -- 74. The Cemetery of Abu Hamad (Raqqa) -- Jan-Waalke Meyer -- 75. The cemeteries of Wreide, Tawi and Shameseddin (Raqqa) -- Jan-Waalke Meyer -- Winfried Orthmann -- 76. Tell Ajaja (Hassake) -- Asa'd Mahmoud -- Hartmut Kühne -- 77. Tell Bderi (Hassake) -- Hartmut Kühne -- Chapter 3 -- Syria in the Classic World -- (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine) -- 78. Jebel Khalid, (Aleppo) -- Graeme Clarke -- Heather Jackson -- 79. Palmyra, 30 Years of Syro-German/Austrian Archaeological Research (Homs) -- Andreas Schmidt-Colinet -- Khaled al-As'ad and Waleed al-As'ad -- 80. Palmyra, Japanese Archaeological Research (Homs) -- Kiyohide Saito -- 81. Palmyrena. The Northern Hinterland of Palmyra (Homs) -- Jørgen Christian Meyer, Nils Anfinset and Torbjørn Preus Schou -- 82. Palmyra/Tadmor (Homs) -- Michal Gawlikowski -- 83. Cyrrhus/Nebi Houri (Aleppo) -- Jeanine Abdul Massih -- Shaker Al-Shbib.

84. Tell As-Sin (Deir ez-Zor) -- Shaker Al-Shbib -- Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós -- 85. Gindaros (Aleppo) -- Ammar Abdulrahman -- 86. El-Iss/Qinnasrin (Aleppo) -- Marie-Odile Rousset -- Youssef Kanjou -- 87. Resafa/Sergiopolis (Raqqa) -- Anas Al Khabour -- 88. Resafa/Sergiupolis /Rusafat Hisham (Raqqa) -- Dorothée Sack and Martin Gussone -- 89. Zenobia - Halabiya (Deir ez-Zor) -- Sylvie Blétry -- 90. Sergilla, Ruweiha and El Bâra (Idlib) -- Maamoun Abdulkarim -- Gérard Charpentier -- 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia) -- Massoud Badawi -- 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo) -- Mohamad Fakhro -- 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor) -- Yaroob al-Abdallah -- 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria -- Françoise Briquel Chatonnet -- 95. Sura (Raqqa) -- Ali Othman -- 96. Tell Shayzar (Hama) -- Matthias Grawehr -- Abdulsalam Albachkami -- Chapter 4 -- Islamic Archaeology in Syria -- 97. The Citadel of Tell Shayzar (Hama) -- Cristina Tonghini -- 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama) -- Shaker Al-Shbib -- Mathilde Gelin -- 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake) -- Michael Fuller and Neathery Fuller -- 100. Aleppo Castle (Aleppo) -- Assad Yusof -- Youssef Kanjou -- 101. Madinat el-Far/Hisn Maslama (Raqqa) -- Claus-Peter Haase -- 102. Kharab Sayyar (Raqqa) -- Jan-Waalke Meyer -- 103. Tell Damir (Raqqa) -- Anas Al Khabour -- Synthesis: Syrian Archaeology in the Past, Present and Future -- List of Figures -- 91. Musaytbeh-Jableh (Lattakia) -- Fig. 1 The site of Musaytbeh, Jableh. -- Fig. 2 Archaeological features in trench A. -- Fig. 3 A lead weight. -- Fig. 4 A bone needle. -- Fig. 5 A small glass flacon, Abbasid period. -- 92. Deir Qinnsrin-Jarabulus (Aleppo) -- Fig. 1 A general view of the site. -- Fig. 2 The remains of the Islamic structures. -- Fig. 3 The discovered parts of the monastery (from the southwest corner: the rectangular hall). -- Fig. 4 Attached sections.

Fig. 5 Floor mosaic from the rectangular hall. -- Fig. 6 Rectangular hall and the attached sections -- Fig. 7 Reconstruction of the rectangular hall and the attached sections -- Fig. 8 Monastery of Qansreen in 2014. -- 93. Tell el-Kasra (Deir ez-Zor) -- Fig. 1 Tell el-Kisr excavations. -- Fig. 2 Mosaic floor -- Fig. 3 Mosaic detail. -- Fig. 4 Mosaic detail. -- 94. Syriac Inscriptions of Syria -- Fig. 1 Tell Matin -- Fig. 2 Nabgha -- Fig. 3 Basufan -- Fig. 4 Qalb Loze -- Fig. 5 Khirbet Hassan -- Fig. 6 Mar Musa -- 95. Sura (Raqqa) -- Fig. 1 The baths, general view from the west. -- Fig. 2 The Byzantine hypogeum. -- Fig. 3 A Justinian tower. -- Fig. 4 Western tower. -- Fig. 5 Various terracotta oil lamps. -- 96. Tell Shayzar (Hama) -- Fig. 1 Aerial view of the castle and tell Shayzar in 1935 -- Fig. 2 Test trench with occupation level of the 12th century AD. -- Fig. 3 Handmade painted ware of the 12th century AD. -- 97. The Citadel of Tell Shayzar (Hama) -- Fig. 1 General map of the citadel showing the main buildings. -- Fig. 2 General view of the citadel from the north-east. -- Fig. 3 Building CF6 from the south-east (Period II). -- Fig. 4 Entrance complex, CA2: the glacis attributed to Nur al-Din (Period IV) and the tower built by Qalawun (Period V). -- Fig. 5 Complex CA1 (Periods IV-V) and the ditch from the east. -- 98. Qalaat Al Mudiq/Apamean Citadel (Hama) -- Fig.1 The plan of the citadel -- Fig. 2 The southeastern part of the Qal'at el Mudiq tell and the collapsed area of the medieval glacis -- Fig. 3. - Excavations in Sector A: mudbrick wall M4 and Hellenistic rampart M1 -- Fig. 5 Tower 5 after restorations -- Fig. 4 Tower 5: foundations in the sounding outside the tower -- Fig. 6 Sector B after restorations -- 99. Tell Tuneinir (Hassake) -- (Photo Prof Michael Fuller, STLCC).

Fig. 1 View of Area 1 excavation area at Tell Tuneinir and impounded floodwater, 2004.