Davide Nadali – Holly Pittman – Andrea Polcaro (Eds.)
Ancient Lagash
Current Research and Future Trajectories
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
Reed C. Goodman,
Steve Renette,
Elizabeth Carter
S. 123 - 144
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Abstract:
Elizabeth Carter surveyed Tell al-Hiba, the ancient city of Lagash, in the winter of 1984, systematically recording surface artifacts over the course of two months. Her results, published in preliminary form, presented an impressionistic overview of demographic and functional trends at Lagash across space and through time. As part of the ongoing Tell al-Hiba Publication Project, a revised ceramic typology was used to update the original field data and bring them into a Geographical Information System (GIS), to attain quantitative and spatial rigor with the survey material as well as produce thematic maps for presentation. This paper thus offers a robust model of spatial patterns of occupation at Lagash over the course of two millennia, with an emphasis on settlement expansion and contraction. Ultimately, it describes the original survey project and current digitization process, especially as it concerns intrasite spatial analysis and the use of spatial statistics to extract as much information as possible from the data. This study nuances understandings of early urbanism at al-Hiba while suggesting broader spatial and organizational phenomena within southern Mesopotamian cities during the Early Bronze Age.
Lagash, Tell-al-Hiba Publication Project, archaeological survey, urbanism, GIS, intrasite spatial analysis, point pattern analysis, kernel density estimates
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2022/12/27 14:25:14
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Rights:All rights reserved.For questions regarding copyright and copies please contact us by email.The State of Lagash was one of the major political powers in the Sumerian world of the 3rd millennium BC, with archaeological attestations at least since the 5th millennium BC. Located in present-day southern Iraq, this State incorporated three main cities: Girsu (Tello), Lagash (Tell al-Hiba), and Nigin (Tell Zurghul). The volume presents the results of studies and excavations carried on in these sites until 2015, providing new data for their historical interpretation. The volume collects contributions to the research at al-Hiba, under the supervision of H. Pittman, a section dedicated to the first archaeological campaign undertaken at the site of Nigin under the direction of D. Nadali and A. Polcaro, and the research on the site of Girsu under the joint direction of S. Rey and F. Husain.
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Der Staat von Lagash im heutigen Südirak war im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr. eine der wichtigsten politischen Mächte im Sumer, und ist archäologisch seit dem 5. Jahrtausend v. Chr. belegt. Dieser Staat bestand aus den drei Hauptstädten Girsu (Tello), Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) und Nigin (Tell Zurghul). Der vorliegende Sammelband präsentiert die Ergebnisse von Studien und Aus-grabungen, die bis 2015 an diesen Standorten durchgeführt wurden, und liefert neue Daten für die historische Interpretation. Darunter finden sich Beiträge zur Forschung in al-Hiba (unter dem Vorsitz von H. Pittman), ein Abschnitt über die erste archäologische Kampagne am Standort Nigin (unter der Leitung von D. Nadali und A. Polcaro) sowie zu Forschungen an der alten Stadt von Girsu (unter der Leitung von S. Rey und F. Husain).
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