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

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.

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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
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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.