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).
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Geoarchaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2008
- Field Date
- May 1999
- Coverage Date
- early Akkadian
- Coverage Place
- Tell Brak, Syria
- Notes
- Marie-Agnès Courty
- For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates
- LCCN
- 00303945
- LCSH
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities