essay

Geoarchaeology, landscape and the region

Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 1-15

By: Wilkinson, T. J. (Tony J.), French, C. A. I. (Charles A. I.), Matthews, Wendy, Oates, Joan.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

'The primary objective of this chapter is to provide the results of preliminary investigations of the landscape around the site of Tell Brak, and to place the site within a geoarchaeological context.' (page 1). Some trenching occurred for soils analysis and description of some of the strata.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Cultural stratigraphy

Geography

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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Archaeologist

Geoarchaeologist

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

20 field seasons from 1976-1998

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

not specified

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Tell Brak and its environs, Syria

NotesAdditional notes

T.J. Wilkinson, C.A.I. French, W. Matthews and J. Oates

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