Final Reports of the Syrian-German Excavations at Tell El-'Abd, Volume III: Small Objects and Environmental Studies: 5.2 (Marru)

Tell el-ʻAbd (Northern Syria, Tabqa Dam Basin) has been investigated in 1971/72 by Adnan Bounni and 1992?1994 by Altorientalisches Seminar of Tübingen University, confirming the earlier Syrian results and more significantly supplemented them with levels from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC, certainly the most important period of the tell. This volume (marru 5/2) is dedicated to the small objects (anthropomorphic figurines, animal figurines, jewellery, an objects made of bone, metal and stone) and the results of environmental studies (archaeobotany, archaeozoology and anthracology). It thus adds the evaluation of the remaining finds plus the results of the investigations into fauna and flora so that finds and environmental conditions together make arise an overall picture of the settlement. Stratigraphy and architecture are intended will be fully elaborated as the topic of the third and last volume of the Final Reports (marru 5/1, in preparation) which began in 2014 with the presentation of the 3rd-millennium ceramics (AVO 16/2).-- From publisher Cover 1 Title Page 4 Table of contents 8 List of figures, tables and plates 12 Abbreviations 15 Editor’s preface 18 Acknowledgements 19 1. INTRODUCTION (Finkbeiner/ Sconzo) 21 PART I. Small Objects 34 2. SEALINGS (Felli) 36 3. ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURINES (Sakal) 42 4. ANIMAL FIGURINES, MODEL VEHICLES, RATTLES AND ARCHITECTURE MODELS (Pruß) 70 5. BONE OBJECTS (Genz) 94 6. METAL OBJECTS (Schmitt) 102 7. STONE OBJECTS (Finkbeiner) 108 8. BAKED AND UNBAKED OBJECTS OF CLAY (Finkbeiner) 116 9. JEWELLERY (Finkbeiner) 136 PART II Environmental Studies 140 10. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIAL 1 (Wilhelm) 142 11. THE FAUNAL REMAINS OF TELL EL-ʻABD. SUBSISTENCE IN A BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT IN SYRIA (Doll) 144 12. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AT TELL EL-ʻABD. ECONOMIC SPECIALIZATION DESPITE OR BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITATIONS? (Riehl) 190 13. CHARCOAL REMAINS FROM THIRD MILLENNIUM BC TELL EL-ʻABD (Deckers) 208 14. ON THE TELL EL-ʻABD RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY (Deckers) 214 15. CONCLUSION. TELL EL-ʻABD THROUGH THE AGES (Finkbeiner) 216 Bibliography 218 APPENDICES 234 Appendix A. Small objects by inventory-number 236 Appendix B. Small objects by square and locus 253 CATALOGUE and PLATES 270 Tell el-ʻAbd (Northern Syria, Tabqa Dam Basin) has been investigated in 1971/72 by Adnan Bounni and 1992?1994 by Altorientalisches Seminar of Tübingen University, confirming the earlier Syrian results and more significantly supplemented them with levels from the first half of the 3rd millennium BC, certainly the most important period of the tell. This volume (marru 5/2) is dedicated to the small objects (anthropomorphic figurines, animal figurines, jewellery, an objects made of bone, metal and stone) and the results of environmental studies (archaeobotany, archaeozoology and anthracology). It thus adds the evaluation of the remaining finds plus the results of the investigations into fauna and flora so that finds and environmental conditions together make arise an overall picture of the settlement. Stratigraphy and architecture are intended will be fully elaborated as the topic of the third and last volume of the Final Reports (marru 5/1, in preparation) which began in 2014 with the presentation of the 3rd-millennium ceramics (AVO 16/2).-- From publisher