essay
Evidence at Tell Brak for the late ED III / early Akkadian airt blast event (4 kyr BP)
Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 367-372
By: Courty, M. A. (Marie-Agnès).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Courty discusses the regional blast event that occurred around 4000 years ago. It shows up in deposits as dust fallout. Using stratigraphic evidence from area CH deposits at Tell Brak she is able to more precisely date the event, disusses how archaeologists may more easliy recognize the strata, proposes a sequence of events which followed the blast, and acknowledges that 'there is as yet no evidence to establish whether the explosion and the related ejecta cloud are the result of a phreato-magmatic eruption or of a cosmic impact.' (page 372).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Disasters
- 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.
- 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
- May 1999
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- early Akkadian
- 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
- Marie-Agnès Courty
- 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