12th ICAANE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANciENT NEAR EAST BOLOGNA APRIL 6-9, 2021 ABSTRACT BOOK PAPERS & POSTERS 12th ICAANE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST BOLOGNA APRIL 6-9, 2021 ALMA MATER STUDIORUM UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA http://www.12icaane.unibo.it/ PARTNERS ;\ l.\.\ :\ IVl,\T [R STUDIO R:; M ~ :.....-. \J'<IVI.R,$1 rA l.)f l;()I OGNA DIPARTIMf.KT<)f:I STORlAc":t/1'.fl/Rf. CIVIIT,\ ISl'vfEO TECHNICAL PARTNERS BolognaWelcome Convention OFAM [3 & VisitorsBureau FONOAZIONEALMAMATER SPONSORS GELATO MUSEUM IPER♦tERAMICA ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS V[RIAC f"a,)ru1111tHIRt Ante HAR RASSOVVITZ Quern BRILL E,q C.AJ.'\1BRIDGE ~ V UNIVERSITY PRESS BR.EPOLS AUSTRIAN ACADEMY lal OF SCIENCES ARCHAEOPRESS II PRESS ~PeWe-Verlag 12TH ICAANE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pierfrancesco CALLIERI Maurizio CATTANI Enrico CIRELLI Antonio CURCI Anna Chiara FARISELLI Henning FRANZMEIER Elisabetta GOVI Mattia GUIDETTI Francesco IACONO Simone MANTELLINI Gianni MARCHESI Nicolò MARCHETTI (Chair) Palmiro NOTIZIA Adriano V. ROSSI Marco ZECCHI 12TH ICAANE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD Pascal BUTTERLIN – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Peter FISCHER – University of Gothenburg Tim HARRISON – University of Toronto Nicolò MARCHETTI – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Wendy MATTHEWS – University of Reading Adelheid OTTO – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Glenn SCHWARTZ – Johns Hopkins University Ingolf THUESEN – University of Copenhagen 5 12TH ICAANE UNIBO EXECUTIVE TEAM Michael CAMPEGGI Vittoria CARDINI Francesca CAVALIERE Claudia D’ORAZIO (Scientific Secretary) Valentina GALLERANI Gabriele GIACOSA Elena MAINI Eleonora MARIANI Chiara MATTIOLI Jacopo MONASTERO Valentina ORRÙ Giulia ROBERTO Marco VALERI Federico ZAINA ICAANE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Pascal BUTTERLIN – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Bleda DÜRING – University of Leiden Marian FELDMAN – Johns Hopkins University Karin KOPETZKY – OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences Wendy MATTHEWS – University of Reading Adelheid OTTO – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Frances PINNOCK – Sapienza University of Rome (Secretary General) Ingolf THUESEN – University of Copenhagen (Chair) Cristina TONGHINI – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Honorary Members: Manfred BIETAK – Austrian Academy of Sciences Hartmut KÜHNE – Free University of Berlin Jean-Claude MARGUERON – École Pratique des Hautes Études Paolo MATTHIAE – Sapienza University of Rome Diederik MEIJER – University of Leiden Alan WALMSLEY – University of Copenhagen Irene WINTER – Harvard University 6 ABSTRACT BOOK THEMES OF THE 12TH ICAANE ...................................................................... p. 8 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS .................................................................................... p. 9 ABSTRACTS OF POSTERS .................................................................................. p. 332 LIST OF WORKSHOPS ....................................................................................... p. 378 ADDENDUM .............................................................................................................. p. 381 7 12th ICAANE THEMES OF THE 12TH ICAANE 1. FIELD REPORTS. Recent excavations, surveys and research 2. ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY. Changing climate and exploitation strategies: impact on ecology, anthropized landscapes and material culture 3. HAMMERING THE MATERIAL WORLD. Characterization of material culture, processes and technologies 4. COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY. Reading symbolic and visual communication net- works and structures 5. MODELING THE PAST. Contemporary theoretical approaches to the archaeology of economies and societies 6. NETWORKED ARCHAEOLOGY. Global challenges and collaborative research in the new millennium 7. ENDANGERED CULTURAL HERITAGE. Coordinated multilateral research, conserva- tion and development strategies 8. ISLAMic ARCHAEOLOGY. Continuities and discontinuities between a deep past and modernity 8 12th ICAANE ABSTRACT OF PAPERS ABAR Aydin, Natascha BAGHERPOUR, Thomas STÖLLNER Theme 4 From the Realm of the Villagers to the Realm of the Numinous: Religious Practice in Rural Late Iron Age to Sasanian Central Iranian Highlands In summer 2000, Gerd Weisgerber and Thomas Stöllner from the DBM (Deutsches Berg- bau-Museum Bochum) revisited a prehistoric copper mine close to the modern village of Vešnave (Province Ghom, Iran). Excavations started in 2001, in collaboration with colleagues from ICAR (Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research). The excavators were overtaken by the large quantities of finds at the site of Chale Ghar 1, which could not be connected to the actual prehistoric mining activities, dating to the 2nd Millennium BCE, but hinted to a much later reuse of some of the galleries. In the course of the campaigns between 2001 to 2005, the joint international team excavated several thousand finds in different parts of the galleries of Chale Ghar 1 and Chale Ghar 2, comprising a large number of complete and broken ceramic vessels (bowls, flasks and jugs of small to medium size), wooden vessels and jewellery, as well as animal bones, remains of plants and fruits, nuts and bakery products. The majority of objects date between Late Iron Age (Iron Age III/IV) and the Sasanian period, few have an earlier date, while the last objects were deposited in the Early Islamic Period. The work conducted so far indicates that the site was some sort of a sanctuary in which the individual and intimate per- ception and experience played an important role. The connection to water makes it tempting to connect it with some sort of Mazdean/Zoroastrian belief, but it needs explanation why it does not fit to what we know about purity of elements in canonical Zoroastrism as we know it from the Sasanian Period onwards. Also, during the 2005 season, a survey was carried out near to the modern village during which more than 30 sites were identified. The pottery examined so can be dated to Iron Age III/IV up until the Islamic Period, indicating that the sanctuary played an important role in the life of the local villagers. The lecture will pursue on how the villagers related their realm (the settlements and allocated fields and gardens) in the valley of Vešnave to the somewhat hidden mountain sanctuary. —————————— ABBASNEJAD Seresti Rahmat, see ASADI Seyyed Kamal —————————— 9 ABDALI Negar Theme 3/Workshop 5 Glazed architectural Elements from Rabat Tappeh, Northwest Iran Glazed artefacts are one of the most striking element of the “Mannaean” material culture which emerged only 40 years ago first as a result of plundered activities and then regular archaeo- logical excavations, mostly at the sites of Ziwiye and later in Rabat and Qalaichi. In the 1960s glazed bricks and vessels from north-western Iran turned up in the international art market de- riving from illegal excavations. Over the years over 1500 baked terra cotta unglazed and glazed architectural elements have been accessioned by the Urmia Museum and National Museum in Tehran from the Iron Age sites referred to as Qalaichi and Rabat in West Azerbaijan province in north-west Iran. About 10% show glazed decoration figural, floral and ornamental decoration. In the following, I will focus on the glazed artefacts from the site of Rabat Tappeh which is located at the south-west end of Rabat town; 1600 m from the western bank of the Lesser Zab River. The art history and iconographic aspect of the motives will be investigated. Additionaly, I will briefly discuss the technique of manufacture as well as the comparisons with other coun- terparts in the Ancient Near East such as Qalaichi. —————————— ABDULLAH SANGAR Mohammed, see COLLIVA Luca —————————— ABDUL MASSIH Jeanine, Shinichi NISHIYAMA Theme 5/Workshop 19 New Discovery of Phoenician Batroun, northern Lebanon: Iron Age-Persian Period occupa- tions Batroun is a coastal town located ca. 30 km north of Beirut and is known for its large wall that locals call “Phoenician wall”. It stands out on the western edge of the town facing the sea and protecting the quarry and the western limit of the town from the waves. However, no serious archaeological investigation of the “Phoenician” period was carried out in the past. In 2018, a joint archaeological mission of Lebanese University and Chubu University (Japan) was com- menced to reveal the archaeological occupations of the old Batroun. During the course of our investigation, substantial evidence of the late Iron Age to Persian period occupations were iden- tified in the northwest part of the town. The results indicate that, for the first time, the history of Batroun apparently goes back to the “Phoenician” period. In this paper, we present our results of the 2018-2019 seasons and discuss the significance of discovery for the study of Phoenicia. —————————— ABDULWAHHAB SULEIMAN Hasan, see BEUGER Claudia —————————— 10 ABRAHAMI Philippe, see VILA Emmanuelle —————————— ABRAMISHVILI Mikheil Theme 5/Workshop 14 Attempts to Archeological Reading of Genetic Studies of the Aegean Bronze Age Population (Caucasian Perspective) Recent genetic studies of the Minoans and Mycenaeans showed that the Bronze Age popula- tions of the Aegean and Anatolia derive from an Anatolian Neolithic-related population, but they also had ‘eastern’ (Caucasus-Iran related) ancestry, which probably occurred during the fourth to second millennia BC. Current paper is an attempt to establish connection between the results of these archaeogenetic studies and archaeological data, and puts forward for discussion the hypothesis