NEARCHOS. Networked Archaeological Open Science: Advances in Archaeology Through Field Analytics and Scientific Community Sharing

The full release and circulation of excavation results often takes decades, thus slowing down progress in archaeology to a degree not in keeping with other scientific fields. The nonconformity of released data for digital processing also requires vast and costly data input and adaptation. Archaeology should face the cognitive challenges posed by digital environments, changing in scope and rhythm. We advocate the adoption of a synergy between recording techniques, field analytics, and a collaborative approach to create a new epistemological perspective, one in which research questions are constantly redefined through real-time, collaborative analysis of data as they are collected and/or searched for in an excavation. Since new questions are defined in science discourse after previous results have been disseminated and discussed within the scientific community, sharing evidence in remote with colleagues, both in the process of field collection and subsequent study, will be a key innovative feature, allowing a complex and real-time distant interaction with the scholarly community and leading to more rapid improvements in research agendas and queries

Karkemish. New Discoveries in the Last Hittite Capital

Report on the Karkemish excavations 2011-201

Tilmen H\uf6y\ufck

Breve sintesi dell'informazione archeologica e testuale relativa al sito dell'Et\ue0 del Bronzo di Tilmen H\uf6y\ufck, in Turchia sud-orientale

The 2014 Joint Turco-Italian Excavations at Karkemish

Preliminary report on the excavations at Karkemish, season 201

A Century of Excavations at Karkemish: Filling the Gaps

The paper provides a presentation of the new project of excavtions of the Turco-Italian Archaeological Expedition to the Region of Gaziantep, with a discussion of the problems inviolved and the perspectives of this new research

Wandering through Early Urbanized Landscapes in Syro-Mesopotamia

In modern surveys, research design has become an integrated task drawing not only from many different fields, but applying simultaneously diverse perspectives and approaches too, from micro- to macro-scales, envisioning a continuum of data which binds nested landscapes and humanscapes. Two recent projects, Ebla Chora \u2013 characterizing the 3rd millennium BC diverse ecological niches east and south of Ebla \u2013 and QADIS \u2013 unraveling settlement patterns and eco-strategies in a central mesopotamian area between Nippur and Fara \u2013 attempted at showcasing such an approach both on the field and on previously acquired data, building upon the outstanding work and ideas put forward by Robert McCormick Adams fifty years ago

Area G and the Urban History of the Inner Town of Karkemish

Storia urbana della citt\ue0 interna a Karkemish sulla base degli scavi e della stratigrafia dell'area G

OrientDams: The Impact of Dams on Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa

Dams represent a controversial tool for economic development. Less contested is their impact on archaeological and heritage resources. It is widely agreed that in addition to water reserves, massive hydraulic infrastructures provide different types of benefits, such as the production of electricity, increased farmland brought by irrigation as well as developments of fishery and water-related industries. However, in addition to their maintenance costs, the construction and up-filling of dams entails potential political international issues when built on rivers flowing through different countries, the dislocation of thousands of people, the permanent loss of the best soils and the widespread destruction of both cultural and natural heritage

Cat. 21

Pubblicazione di una cretula usata per sigillare una porta di magazzino a Tilmen Hoyuk, in Turchia, recante il sigillo di uno scriba al servizio del re di Babilonia Sumula'el, e implicazioni storiche di tale eccezionale ritrovamento epigrafico

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and development of these artifacts has been a complicated and problematic task. In this volume the authors provide a complete relative chronology for these remarkable objects. Having established the chronological sequence through an examination of the archaeological contexts of the excavated pieces and the analysis of their inscriptions, the authors then consider the significance of the changes, over time, in the subject matter of figurative arts, noting a gradual shift from a stage in which the entire officialdom of early polities was celebrated to a stage in which the figure of the king alone becomes the main and then almost the only object of celebration. Near the end of the Early Dynastic period, which was a time of continual political upheaval, new iconographic details were introduced in order to characterize the royal figure, and a distinctive royal iconography began to be developed. Starting from these observations, the authors proceed to investigate the ideology of early polities in Mesopotamia and the role and functions of the king. Along with a new chronology of Early Dynastic rulers and an outline of Early Dynastic history, discussions of significant monuments and inscriptions are offered. In addition, all known inscriptions on royal statues are edited and provided with detailed commentaries