essay
Third-millennium BC charred plant remains from Tell Brak
Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 301-326
By: Charles, Michael, Bogaard, Amy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Charles and Bogaard present 'an analysis of charred plant remains dating from the late ED III through the post-Akkadian occupation of the site....[A]rhaeobotanical work at large urban sites in both north and south Mesopotamia has been limited but can potentially address ... questions relating to crop production and consumption ...[T]he evidence from Tell Brak can provide useful comparisions with contemporary sites elsewhere in the region ...' (p301). Their analysis demonstrates the cultivation of at least four cereal crops and two pulses. Some of the cereal crops may have been used as animal fodder. There isn't any clear evidence of climate change based on these samples.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cereal agriculture
- Tillage
- Flora
- Pastoral activities
- Climate
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akkadian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeobotanist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1978-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4400 BP-3950 BP (2400 BC-1950 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tell Brak, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mike Charles and Amy Bogaard
- For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00303945
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities