12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Bologna April 6-9, 2021

Program 12th International Congress on the

Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Bologna

April 6-9, 2021

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Pierfrancesco Callieri Michael Campeggi Maurizio Cattani Vittoria Cardini Enrico Cirelli Francesca Cavaliere Antonio Curci Claudia D’Orazio (Scientific Secretary) Anna Chiara Fariselli Valentina Gallerani Henning Franzmeier Gabriele Giacosa Elisabetta Govi Elena Maini Mattia Guidetti Eleonora Mariani Francesco Iacono Chiara Mattioli Simone Mantellini Jacopo Monastero Gianni Marchesi Valentina Orrù Nicolò Marchetti (Chair) Giulia Roberto Palmiro Notizia Marco Valeri Adriano V. Rossi Federico Zaina Marco Zecchi ICAANE International Committee

Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 12th ICAANE Scientific Advisory Board Bleda Düring – University of Leiden Marian Feldman – Johns Hopkins University Pascal Butterlin – University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Karin Kopetzky – OREA, Austrian Academy of Sciences Peter Fischer – University of Gothenburg Wendy Matthews – University of Reading Tim Harrison – University of Toronto Adelheid Otto – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Nicolò Marchetti – Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Frances Pinnock – Sapienza University of Rome (Secretary General) Wendy Matthews – University of Reading Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen (Chair) Adelheid Otto – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Cristina Tonghini – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Glenn Schwartz – Johns Hopkins University Honorary Members: Ingolf Thuesen – University of Copenhagen 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

4 April 6th, 2021 (9:30-12:30) Plenary session 6th April (9:30-12:30)

9:30-10:30 Opening addresses and artistic performances

Francesco Ubertini Rector of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Welcome greeting University of Bologna

Ingolf Thuesen University of Copenhagen, President of the Inaugural greeting ICAANE International Scientific Committee Paolo Capuzzo Congress Themes Head of the Department of History and Cultures, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Institutional greeting Adriano Rossi 1. Field reports President of ISMEO - International Association for Mediterranean and Oriental Studies Nicolò Marchetti Introduction and opening of the Congress 2. Environmental Archaeology Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna Giulia Piraccini, Margherita Robecchi, Poetry reading: Hymn of the Rain (Unshūdat al- Roberto Santoro, Alice Zamarchi Matar) , by Badr Shākir Al-Sayyāb 3. Hammering the material world (coord. Ahmad Addous) with its readings in Arabic, Turkish, Farsi and English

Musical interlude: 4. Cognitive archaeology Réda Zine Reviewing the MENA musical heritage. Gwana music from Guembri to electric guitar

5. Modeling the past Keynote lectures

Chair: Roger Matthews 6. Networked archaeology 1. Field reports

7. Endangered cultural heritage Adelheid Otto A new response to old questions. How did Ur 10:30-11:00 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich slowly recover in the Isin-Larsa period?

8. Islamic archaeology 2. Environmental Archaeology

The climate-humans-climate nexus: Modelling Sandy Harrison 11:00-11:30 the impact of climate on agricultural production University of Reading and agricultural expansion on global climate

3. Hammering the material world From pottery manufacture and use to social Francesca Balossi Restelli relations at the beginning of full-time 11:30-12:00 Sapienza University of Rome craftsmanship. The case of Late Chalcolithic 3-4 Arslantepe (3900-3400 BCE), Eastern Turkey 7. Endangered cultural heritage

Nour A. Munawar Competing heritage: Curating the future heritage 12:00-12.30 University of Amsterdam of post-conflict Syria

12.30-14.00 Lunch Break

5 April 6th (14:00-18:00) 6th April (14:00-18:00)

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 5. Modeling the past Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Microfossil insights to plant-use at Guilarian Raei Handedness and language in palaeolithic Pollution or Practical Solution? On the Nino Pataridze, Davit Paravani Archaeological Project, Excavation human populations. Stone tools obtained A Decorated Bronze Knife from Early Iron Arzawa = Watered Land. A new hypothesis 14:00-14:30 Kate Dudgeon Neolithic Abu Hureyra, Syria, 8800-6000 Roodbardeh, Rahmat Alla Rabinovich Lidewijde De Jong spatial setting and reuse of tombs in the Fabrizio Giovannetti Darejanashvili Results (2018-2020) from 14 Middle Paleolithic sites along the Age Beth-Shemesh and Its Entangled Origins on the meaning of the Luwian toponym cal. BC Abbass Nejad Serasti Northern Levant (1st c. - 3rd c. CE) Holeylan River, central Zagros

Konstantinos Intercultural relations in the Bronze Age: New Kurgans, Churches and Karvasla: The first Agriculture and the emergence of settled The Late Neolithic Bone Tool Industry at Changing Death throughout Assyria: Temples through time: a radiocarbon analysis Elise Luneau, Yuri Kutimov, Tatjana Kristen Hopper, Elena Rova, Davit Charlotte Diffey, Roger Kopanias, Vemou 3D model analysis of the LBA and EIA 14:30-15:00 Data from the upper Surkhan-Darya Valley two seasons of the Lagodekhi Archaeological society: New evidence from the Zagros Stephen Rhodes Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora: Petra M. Creamer Provincial versus Heartland Mortuary Lyndelle Webster, Stephen Bourke of the Bronze to Iron Age temple sequence at Germanovna Filimonova Kvavadze Matthews, Wendy Matthews Erato, Sidiropoulou swords from the Near East (Tajikistan) Survey, Georgia region New data from recent excavations Practices in the Longue Durée Pella (Jordan) Aikaterini

A diachronic view on the Anatolia Emmanuelle Vila, M. Mashkour, L. Orlando, F. Lorenzo Castellano, Pam Pompanon, P. Abrahami, C. Michel, J. Chahoud, Two Seasons of Excavations at the landscape: environment, economies, and Southern Mesopotamia after Uruk: Funerary practices and the role of pottery The development of sheep breeds in Southwest Takhmina Bostanova, Natalia Skakun, Features of the Gissar Neolithic Culture (South Crabtree, Ali Gürel, Catherine Morphological Variability in Early Bronze T. Cucchi, C. Breniquet, D. Bradley, R. Berthon, 15:00-15:30 Elena Rova, Kvavadze Davit Chalcolithic site of Tsiteli Gorebi 5 polities from the Bronze Age to the Hugo Naccaro changes and innovations within material Ashley Cercone Maha Masri deposits in the Iron Age. Recent discoveries, Asian societies (6th-1rst millennia B.C.): Dmitriy Shulga Tajikistan) Kuzucuoğlu, Alvise Matessi, Age Anatolian Potting Technologies B. De Cupere, M. Albesso, H. Davoudi, O. (Lagodekhi municipality, Georgia) Ottoman Period in the Northern Tyanitis cultures Dekerman 55, Sidon EvoSheep project–multidisciplinary approaches Lorenzo d’Alfonso Estrada, M. Vuillien, C. Bader, L. Gourichon, (Southern Cappadocia, Turkey) M. Azadeh, J. Studer.

From catastrophe to catastrophe; changes, Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith, M. Guirguis, R. Alexey V. Fribus, Sergey P. Grushin, New rare seals and first polychrome painting Yarden Pagelson, Iron Production Technology in the Neo- Following the Phoenicians – patterns and destructions and other factors. The research of Setareh Tepe Sadegh, An orbital site of Shahr-i Pla Orquín, B. Costa, A. Niveau de 15:30-16:00 Robert M. Sataev, Nadezhda A. from 2019 excavations at Gonur Depe, Bronze Krzysztof Jakubiak Yuval Golan, Eliezer Assyrian Sphere: The Iron Workshop at Tara Ingman Container Burials at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) processes emerging from aDNA across the a small Iron Age town Metasmor in the Aras Ebrahimiabareghi Sokhta Villedary y Mariñas, M. Macías López, L. Dubova, Muhametnazar Y. Begliev Age site (Turkmenistan) Oren, Yuval Goren Tel Sera', Western Negev, Israel Mediterranean Valley (Armenia) Nigro, A. Gosling, J. Beattie, C. Collins

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Report on 2018-2020 excavations and Giulio Palumbi, B. Jalilov, F. Guliyev, Tell el-Burak and the Phoenician research at Kiçik Tepe and Qaraçinar Carmel Liran, Lily Agranat-Tamir, David From Alexander to Eucratides: new research of M. Huseynov, M. Poulmarc’h, L. Astruc, Shyama Vermeersch, Jens Heartland during the Iron Age: a The Genomic History of the Bronze Age 16:30-17:00 Ladislav Stančo, Jan Kysela E. Baudouin, R. Berthon, M. B. D’Anna, (Azerbaijan). New data on the Neolithic and Reich, Israel Finkelstein, Shai Carmi, Ron the Hellenistic Central Asia Kamlah, Britt M. Starkovich Zooarchaeological Case-Study placed Southern Levant A. Decaix, B. Gratuze, C. Hamon, A. Kura-Araxes periods between the Kura River Pinhasi within a Regional Framework Mazuy, M. Regert, A. Ricci valley and the Lesser Caucasus Mountains

Alissa Mittnik, P. P. Petrone, A. S. Stefano Valentini, Erdal Yilmaz, Antonio Curci, Elena Maini, A giraffe bone from the Neo-Assyrian Tendler, V. Eshed, R. Bianco, M. Lari, A. Margiana in the Bronze Age. The BMAC The human burials from Şinduxa (Kurdistan Valentina D'Amico, Guido A preliminary report on a mid-late fourth Marzia Cavriani, Lucio palace compound at Karkemish? Multi-Ethnicity Craftsmen in the Landscapes of Warfare in the Ancient Near Alessandro Canci, Hasan Modi, E. Pilli, S. Vai, V. Amoretti, A. Ancient DNA reveals Near Eastern ancestry in 17:00-17:30 Barbara Cerasetti phenomenon through the latest data from Guarducci, Lorenzo Crescioli, Zohreh Zehbari Tiffany Earley-Spadoni Region, Iraq). A bioarchaeological and millenniun BC kurgan in western Azerbaijan Calcagnile, Beatrice Demarchi, Influences and connections between Achaemenid Period East: A View from Urartu Ahmed Qasim Martellone, M. Osanna, F. Sirano, J. the victims of the 79 A.D. Vesuvius eruption Togolok 1 (Southern Turkmenistan) Nicola Laneri, Modwene archaeothanatological approach Gianluca Quarta, Federico Zaina Assyria and Egypt during the Iron Age III Krause, R. Pinhasi, D. Caramelli, D. Poulmarc'h, Bakhtiyar Jalilov Reich

Patterns of Continuity and Change in An Early Bronze Age Specialized Studying genetic and cultural admixture of 17:30-18:00 Natalia Handziuk Ádám Bollók Providing the Dead with Amuletic Protection Gronau Ilan, Dalit Regev Processing Centre in Northern Jordan Phoenicians in Sicily in the Late Antique Near East

Workshop (if 22. Memory, Identity, and Death in Mesopotamia and the Levant: exploring 17. Ancient DNA of the Near East and the Mediterranean present) long-term trends in (non-royal) mortuary customs

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 5. Modeling the past 1. Field reports 8. Islamic archaeology 4. Cognitive archaeology 4. Cognitive archaeology 6. Networked archaeology 1. Field reports Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

The Israelite-Judaean Military Service in the Domestication of what? Objectification, meta- The rural settlement at Çatalhöyük in the The City of Hartapu: Results of the People are Strange: Experiencing strangeness Teaching the Neo-Hittite world one block at a Armies of Assyria and the Army of the group cohesion, and heterarchy as the Enrico Cirelli, Mattia Introduction to the Islamic archaeology context of the settlement in Central 14:00-14:30 Haggai Olshanetsky Cristina Barcina conceptual parameters of a new ontological, James Osborne, Michele Massa Türkmen-Karahöyük Intensive Survey Vera Egbers through the built environment in Assyria and Dominique Langis-Barsetti time: Minecraft as an educational tool in Jędrzej Hordecki Kingdom of Israel in the 10th - 8th C BCE: Guidetti session Anatolia during Iron Age and Hellenistic socioeconomic, and political understanding Project in the Konya Plain Urartu archaeological outreach Composition, Strength and Prestige periods of the fourth millennium BC

Urbanization versus urbanism. New insights Tracing Late Antiquity in the eastern When a Door is Open: Entering the Imperial on the emergence of the urban phenomenon in 2014-2019 Archaeological excavations at Muʿāwiya and the mosque (?) of al- Constructing social hierarchies: palace and Born Digital: The Energetic Calculator for 14:30-15:00 Jia Yan Barbara Chiti Miqayel Badalyan Tawfiq Da'adli Simon M. Halama Federico Buccellati Gülriz Kozbe Mediterranean on the basis of a rural Space of Assyria through the 'Balawat Gates’ Syria at the turn of the 4th and 3rd millennium Erebuni Fortress, Republic of Armenia Sinnabra city in the Syro-Hittite states Ancient Buildings occupation at Dede Harabeleri BCE

Modeling the diffusion of the Assyrian culture in Locating Tarhuntassa, the lost capital of Ghazni Sacred Landscape. Ziyārāt, An insight on the politics of royal and elite Digitally (re)born: The 3D model of the White A Palatial Complex at Charax Spasinou, Rethinking the Emergence of Social Michele Massa, Christoph Martina Massullo, 15:00-15:30 Adonice-Ackad Baaklini the Iron Age Near East. The case study of the Bleda Düring the Hittite Empire: Türkmen-Karahöyük Shrines and Burials from the Ghaznavid Martin Makinson costume in Syria and Anatolia in the Iron Sebastian Hageneuer Temple in Uruk and the principles of Virtual Mary Shepperson Basra province, Iraq. Identification and Inequalities: The Case of Chalcolithic Cyprus Bachhuber Valentina Laviola Kingdom of Hamat (Konya, Turkey) Period to the Modern Age Age: A case of conscious affiliation Reconstructions initial results.

Centre and periphery: dynamics of the The reorganization of social elites and The impact of Mongol rule on urbanism in Lorenzo D'Alfonso, Digital Tools and the Historical Setting of Living Faith and Community. The Late Urban Squares in Bronze Age Syria: A Street occupation of the north-east region of Syria exclusive rites in post-Hittite Central Anatolia: How to Build Fear? The Multimodality of 15:30-16:00 Alessandra Gilibert Suzanne Dibo Katie Campbell the South Caucasus: Urban Change in Elena Basso, Alessio Elisabeth Wagner-Durand Maria Gabriella Micale Ancient Architecture: The Case of Syria between Jürgen K. Zangenberg Roman-Byzantine Synagogue(s) at Horvat View on Ancient City Life during the second half of the 3rd millennium networks and structures beyond the Alishar- Architecture and Emotion Barda, Azerbaijan from 1200-1400 Mantovan Third and Second Millennia BCE Kur (Galilee) BC IV ware

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Free foragers? A case for transient social Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Joe Roe, Mt Ağrı region during the Chalcolithic Rick Bonnie, Saimi Religious Responses to Climate Change in the Le Roi d'Assyrie est Apsû: tout baigne dans The transition from Aceramic to Ceramic 16:30-17:00 inequality at Epipalaeolithic Shubayqa, eastern Aynur Özfırat Fabrice De Backer Andrew McCarthy Tobias Richter and Early Bronze Age Kautonen Southern Levant l'huile Neolithic at Prastio-Mesorotsos, Cyprus Jordan

Variation in economic specialization is Observations on the manufacturing Empire beyond its palaces: New discoveries of Visualizing ancestral landscapes: a cognitive Three-dimensional visualization and analysis of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Trade Hakob Y. Simonyan, Gregory E. Linoy Namdar, Jacob Vardi, revealed through the study of Pottery The findings proving glass was techniques of the Abbasid stuccoes from The representation of Childhood in the Jens Rohde, Florian Janoscha Kreppner, 17:00-17:30 the Urartian period at the necropolis of Karmir- Elif Hanar Andrea Luigi Corsi Chiara Pappalardo approach to Kura-Araxes necropolises in the Nadia Pezzulla stratigraphy and earth deposits in the Peshdar Peter M. Fischer Centre's Intercultural Contacts in the Areshian Yitzhak Paz, Lidar Sapir-Hen Neolithic faunal assemblages from the discovered in Mesopotamia the Friday Mosque of Isfahan (767 – Assyrian Cognition Andrea Squitieri, Jean-Jacques Herr Blur (Armenia) southern Caucasus Plain Project Bronze Age Southern Levant 840/41)

The Akkar Plain: material culture and Setting Values in Diaspora; Social Spheres The crown-prince at Mount Nipur: Marco Valeri, Pietro Baldassarri, Silvano OrientGIS - Networked GIS in Archaeology. Representative aspects of horse gear in Lori Berd Setting things apart: Chalcolithic containers Michel Al-Maqdissi, Georges regional interactions during the Bronze Wooden Ceilings at Raqqa and Their 17:30-18:00 Ruben Davtyan Nolwen Rol Markus Ritter Sepideh Maziar and Material Manifestation of Culture and Riccardo Menis reinterpreting an obscure relief of the Cudi Bertossa, Simone Mantellini, Nicolò The cases of the Ebla Chora and Floodplains (Armenia) on the Iranian Central Plateau Mouamar Age. Prospection 1986-1987 and 2005- Evolution in Early Islamic Architecture Identity Dağ monumental complex Marchetti, Valentina Orrù Projects 2006

Workshop (if 18. ‘Born Digital’: How Digital Methods are Changing Archaeological Research present)

6 April 7th (9:00-13:00) 7th April (9:00-13:00)

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology and 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 5. Modeling the past Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Investigating human-environmental Mustafa Kibaroğlu, Julia Introduction to Scientific Analyses in relationships in the Zagros region during 9:00-9:30 Maria Rabbani Schönicke, Birgül Öğüt, Philipp Archaeological Contexts and State of Art the Late Pleniglacial, Late Glacial and Hoelzmann, Marta Portillo of Scientific Methods Holocene period

Takahiro Odaka, Osamu Maeda, Investigating the Late Neolithic in the The Archaeological Area of Tūlūl al-Baqarat: Human adaptations to faunal shifts in the Kazuya Shimogama, Yuichi S. Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Let the beauty come out of ashes. Ashy Contest scene in EDIII Mesopotamian 9:30-10:00 Carlo Lippolis a Summary Report on 2013-2019 Field Hayakawa, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Lisa Yeomans Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of Hana Kubelková Dorota Ławecka Excavations at Shakar Tepe, the first layers of Monjukli Depe glyptics Seasons Nawshirwan A. Mohammed, Kamal Eastern Jordan. season (2019) Rasheed

The interpretation of grooved stones: Larsa and Tell el ‘Uwaili (Iraq), preliminary Exploring the Bronze Age at Pella in Caprine birth seasons at early Aeneolithic Human-animal relationships in the Early Asta Salicath Halvorsen, Lisa Evidence based on a toolkit recovered from Symmetry and Duplication in Hittite 10:00-10:30 Regis Vallet results of the XIVth and XVth campaigns Stephen James Bourke Jordan: Highlights from the 2019 Field Donna de Groene Jana Eger Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan: Insights Benedetta Bellucci Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Yeomans the Pre- Pottery Neolithic A site of Seals (2019) Season from stable isotope analysis Shubayqa 6 in northeast Jordan

The informative potential of microscale "…Out of the ivory palaces…": Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin, Iraq: Preliminary Health in the Neolithic transition of the Harel Shochat, Guy Bar-Oz, The Archaeology of Iran in the first Qasr Shemamok: the Late Bronze Age observations of floor deposits: an example Preliminary results from the Late Bronze 10:30-11:00 Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro Report of the New Results from Recent Maria Grazia Masetti Sam Walsh eastern fertile crescent: new evidence from Susanna Cereda Cheryl Makarewicz, Ayelet Bruno Genito, Lucia Cerullo Millenniun BCE. New Issues for an Levels, and Before from the site of Arslantepe (Malatya, and Iron Ages Southern-Levant Ivory Excavations Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan Gilboa Old Question Turkey) Research Project

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

What happened to the Ubaid? Trash and City. Analysis, clues and A Tale of Sandy Silt - Geochemical Quantification of Stone Structure A Look Upstream from Qasr Shemamok. Understanding Networks of Reassessment of Early Mesopotamian Cities: methodological keynotes about the city Sediment Analyses from the Early Khaled Abu Jayyab, Elizabeth Morphologies to Investigate Knowledge Reuven Yeshurun, Dani 11:30-12:00 Emily Hammer Rita Dolce Soundings at the Site of Kandara Qal Maria Amodio Julia Schönicke Communication During the Ubaid/Late Stefan L. Smith The emergence of the Natufian New Surveys at Ur and Lagash and garbage disposal during the Late Neolithic Settlement Göbekli Tepe, Gibbon Transmissions across the Prehistoric Nadel (Iraqi Kurdistan) Chalcolithic 1 Transition in Northeastern Antiquity Turkey Syro-Jordanian Steppes Mesopotamia Between an end and a new beginning: An Embarrassment of Riches: Philippe Quenet, Franco Recent Research in the Qara Dagh Valley As Above, so Below? Dumping and Archaeobotany of Syro-Anatolian city- Hila May, Ariel Pokhojaev, New excavation at Eridu by the AMEr team Antonietta Catanzariti, Terri Tanaka, Tracking the post-Ubaid Mesopotamian Correlating Burial Wealth with New insights into Natufians’ dailylife 12:00-12:30 D'Agostino, Anne-Caroline of Iraqi-Kurdistan, a view from the site of Philip Bes, Tine Rassalle Phasing in a Cistern at Byzantine Horvat Doğa Karakaya states: current research and future Johnny Samuele Baldi Yagmur Heffron Tatiana Sella-Tunis, Rachel (2019-2020) Amy Richardson transition as a horizon of ceramic Historical Narratives of Impoverishment based on their osteobiographies Rendu-Loisel Ban Qala Kur (Galilee, Israel) prospects Sarig innovations in Ancient Kanesh

The End of the Ubaid Period in the Upper The Iron Age II funerary ritual in the Emergency Excavation in the Area Judging from trash buckets: clues on the What can phytoliths tell us about empires? Eighty Years of Research on the Licia Romano, Franco Abu Tbeirah: Preliminary Report on the 2018- Soraya Afshari, Leila Afshari, Tigris River Valley: A View from Kenan Middle Euphrates area in light of the 12:30-13:00 Around the Kabood and Modavar Towers Anna Lena earliest phases of life of the site of Birgül Öğüt Case studies from Syro-Hittite states in Jason R. Kennedy Giulia Roberto Natalie Munro Zooarchaeology of the Natufian period: D'Agostino 2019 Excavations Mohammad Rahmatpour Tepe, Diyarbakir Province, Southeastern new excavations at the necropolis of of Maraghe, Northwest of Iran Magdala/Tarichea (Galilee) southeast Turkey Where are we now? Turkey Yunus

Workshop (if 8. Tales from the garbage. Excavation, methodology and pottery processing of 7. Scientific Analyses in Archaeological Contexts - Possibilities and Limits in 23. Delineating the End of a World: Chronological Indicators and Material 21. The Natufian at 90: Synthesis and Review present) the dumping deposits in the Near East from the Roman to the Islamic period Western Asian Archaeology cultural Changes at the end of the Ubaid Period in Greater Mesopotamia

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 5. Modeling the past and 3. Hammering the material world 7. Endangered cultural heritage 8. Islamic archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 6. Networked archaeology 3. Hammering the material world Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

The Lebanon Mountain Trail Cultural Toward a Linguistic Archeology of the Creation of the Social Boundary: A Test Morphology, function and technology in The Role of the Arm Shaped Vessels in Heritage Project . Preserving Cultural Southern Levant: Non–Arabic Names of A Late Antiquity and Early Medieval 9:00-9:30 Yamafuji Masatoshi Case of Early Bronze Age in the Southern Letizia Cerqueglini Daniel Varga Anna Smogorzewska pottery traditions of Neolithic Gulf. A Turkan Pilavci Rituals: The Hand Holding the Cup in Fares Alia Heritage and Engaging Archaeology Utensils and Landscape Elements in Town at Sderot - Israel Dead Sea Valley study from Bahra 1 (Kuwait) Hittite Libations for Education on the Lebanon Traditional Palestinian Dialects Mountain Trail

Jamaan & Khirbet al-Jamous: Iron Age Galina E. Veresotstskaya, Nataliya The experience of the conservation, Traditions of Manufacture in Nahal Virginia R. Herrmann, David Federico Cappella, Romel Gharib, Female rattle dancers in the Iron Age Multiscale collaborative approaches to Urbanization and State Formation at Iron Age Fortresses of the Kingdom of Ammon at A. Kovaleva, Mukhmmed A. restoration and reconstruction of the Repha’im, a Potters Village in the Southern Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, 9:30-10:00 Schloen, Sebastiano Soldi, Elisabetta Gallo, Licia De Vito, Ignacio Arce Two New Umayyad mosques in Jordan Helena Roth Levant – a distinctive figurine type Vito Messina archaeological research: the projects Sam’al (Zincirli, Turkey) the time of Assyrians (Sapienza - DoA Mamedov, Nadezhda A. Dubova, Bronze Age painting with mosaics inlays Levant from the Intermediate and the Andrei Aioanei Sturt W. Manning Lorenzo Nigro rediscovered SigNet and (in)visible Collections rescue excavations) Jannet S. Karanova (case of Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan) Middle Bronze Ages

Euro-Iraqi Partnerships for Cultural Federica Spagnoli, Fabiola Zielli, The temples of Motya and their Levantine Life after death of the archaeological sites, Typology, Technology, Function and Federico Zaina, Nicolò The Production of space in Iron Age Squatter Valentina Gallerani, Valentina The Making of Terracotta Figurines and Heritage Preservation and 10:00-10:30 Georg Cyrus Nina Ferrante, Federico Cappella, prototypes: recent discoveries of Sapienza Chamsia Sadozaï, Matilde Mura Understanding earth architecture Islamic Europos Amaury Havé Evolution of Mesopotamian «\,stemmed Laura Battini Marchetti, Licia Proserpio, occupation of Godin Tepe Vezzoli Plaques Archaeological Practice Development: Ilenia Melis, Lorenzo Nigro University of Rome preservation dishes\,» and offering stands Giulia Scazzosi The WALADU and EDUU Projects

New Perspectives in the Analysis of Middle Bronze Age Settlement in the What makes a figurine work? A case Distribution of Assyrian Ware in the Urban Laura Zanazzo, Daniele Morandi Underwater Looting Activity in the La phase islamique de Tell Deinit (Idlib), “Ubaid” Pottery Materials from Southern Near Eastern Archaeology at a Cross- 10:30-11:00 Yifat Thareani Transtigridian Plains of Northern Iraqi Konstantinos-Orfeas Sotiriou Marco Rossi, Giuseppe Minunno Luca Volpi Monique Arntz study from the Neolithic site of Ingolf Thuesen Space: A View from the Westland Bonacossi Aegean and the Ionian Seas Syrie Mesopotamia: Recent Analyses from the Road Kurdistan Çatalhöyük (Turkey) Excavations in Area B, Tell Zurghul (Iraq)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Middle and Late Bronze pottery Continuity or Change? Detecting the Hidden behind styles and motives - An Simone Arnhold, Paata Photogrammetry Works at al Madam distribution in the north-eastern Multilateral approach for “Archaeology Development of the Ceramic Horizon Carmen del Cerro, Carlos Analysis of Manufacturing Techniques of 11:30-12:00 Bukhrashvili, Zurab New data of the East Georgian Late Iron Age Rafał Koliński Micheline Kurdy, Thomas Sagory Meredyth Lynn Winter The Excavated Textiles from Rayy Eloisa Casadei Raz Kletter Lioness Figurines, Sekhmet, and Leviat (Sharjah, UAE) on 2019 season of Jonas Kluge Mesopotamia. Insights from the UGZAR and heritage of the middle east” Between the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC Fernandez Rodriguez soft-stone vessels on the Oman Peninsula Tskvitinidze work project. as Seen from Tell Zurghul/Nigin from the 3rd to the 1st millennium B.C.

Social Resilience or Cultural Hybridity? For now, it’s just a matter of style: Assembling Community: Households and DOJAM – A Pilot Project for Sustainable The Third Millennium pottery sequence ‘Signature Strikes’: A study of breakage The functional variability of the obsidian Settlement Developments in the Plain of Hashem Khries, Jutta Häser, Rocco Rante, Renata Holod, Leslee An Archaeological Investigation of Rayy Testing ‘Isolation-by-Distance’ on 12:00-12:30 Sarit Paz Social Collectivity in the Kura-Araxes Village Cinzia Pappi and Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Angelo Di Michele from Area B in Tello (Iraq): Persistence, Nadeshda Bladt Knudsen patterns in Levantine Early Bronze Age Sergio Russo Alice Vinet toolkit at Çatalhöyük-West and its socio- Koya (Iraqi-Kurdistan) in the Middle And Bernard Beitz Michaelson between Excavation and Archives an Ancient Near Eastern pottery of Kvatskhelebi, Georgia. Jordan changes and evolutions zoomorphic figurines economic implications Late Bronze Age case study

Insights into the Mardama(n) Countryside The Pottery of the German Excavations on The Late Chalcolithic of Arslantepe The Zahrani Regional Survey. Results of the in the Mittani and Middle Assyrian Pilot experimentation as a data collecting Daniela Zampetti, Cristina 12:30-13:00 Aaron Schmitt, Helen Gries Ivana Puljiz Albert Dietz the Southern Mound of Ur. Ur III and Old Céline Murphy (Eastern Anatolia): A Lithic Perspective 2017 and 2018 seasons and future plans Period: Results of the Excavations at method for research on ancient figurines Lemorini, Davide D'Errico Babylonian Pottery in Context on the “KUYU” Structures Muqable

13. Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium BC Northern Workshop (if 1. Ceramic Traditions and Cultural Territories: New Research Approaches in 2. Standardizing Creativity. Analytical Tools for the Study of Clay 20. “Let the Stone Speak”: Status and Socioeconomic Implications of 19. The Bronze and Iron Age archaeological landscape of Western Lebanon Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and present) the Study of the South Mesopotamia Pottery Figurines in the Mediterranean and Near East Protohistoric Lithic Productions in the Near East the Zagros

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 5. Modeling the past Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Fill the silos: from grain containers to Tracking the Invisible Commodities of Intrasite Spatial-Functional Analysis and Lithic on the onset of sedentary Exchange of skills or skilled exchanges? Riccardo Laurenza, Raffaella garbage dumps. Evidences at Tell Barri Ancient Trade. Biomolecular methods for Changing Social Practices during the societies- typo-technological, functional 14:00-14:30 Barbara Huber Michael Fisher Sara Caramello Specialist Gift Exchange in the Ancient Ofer Marder Pierobon Benoit (Syria) between the Sixth and Twelfth exploring spices, aromatics, and past Ubaid-Late Chalcolithic 1 Transition at Tell and chronological perspectives of the Near East during the Late Bronze Age centuries smellscapes Zeidan, Syria Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant

The 12th/13th Century CE Glazed and From the Natufian into the PPNA: Excavation report 2017-2019 at the More than meets the eye: Locating Late Trash or values: the case of the cistern Incised Pottery from Takht-i Suleyman, Pottery making in the Balikh Valley: 14:30-15:00 Enrico Ascalone Pascal Flohr Carmelo Pappalardo Katharina Kuntz Giulia Russo Tobias Richter Social and Economic Change at the end Monumental Area in Shahr-i Sokhta Neolithic sites in Jordan R16B in Umm al-Rasas / Kastron Mefa’a Iran. An Archaeo-ceramological preliminary results of the Pleistocene Approach

Absolute chronology of the Natufian in Center of the Iranian Plateau during the Early The 2018-2019 Spanish-Italian Keep on Trash': Dumping materials form Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Ali Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu, Mustafa Archaeometric analysis of Late Bronze Copper-Based objects in the Jezireh the southern Levant and Bronze Age: New Archaeological Research in Andrea Polcaro, Juan Ramon Archaeological Campaigns at Jebel al- the late Roman to Islamic Period in Jearsh. 15:00-15:30 Shojaee-Esfahani, Yaser Raffaella Pappalardo Analysis, Methodology and Clues form Kibaroğlu, Ekin Kozal, Hannah and Iron Age Plain and Drab Ware from Souheb Talal Razok during the Third Millennium BC; Types, Elisabetta Boaretto synchronization with climatic and the Eastern Zone of the Zāyandehrud River Muniz Mutawwaq: the Early Bronze Age I Site Jebreili, Hadi Alahyari selected contexts of the Late Antique Jerash Mönninghoff, Joachim Opitz Sirkeli Höyük (Cilicia, South Anatolia) Fabrication Techniques and origins cultural changes: can we increase the Basin and the Megalithic Necropolis Project time resolution?

Project Uškiani: The importance of Recent evidence on the Late Chalcolithic Elisabetta Gallo, Romel Gharib, Khirbet al-Batrawy in north-central Starting from scratch: the use of cisterns To Die Or Not To Die: death and The first season of Archaeological Excavation Armenian gold for Bronze Age Caucasia- Sophie Pietsch, Jean-Jacques Herr, pottery production from Dinka Settlement 15:30-16:00 Lili Niakan, D. Huff Licia De Vito, Gaia Cecconi, Jordan: new discoveries in the Early Apolline Vernet as dumping deposit in cities after the René Kunze Eva Götting A Short Typology of Lamaštu Amulets Fanny Bocquentin redistribution of social roles in the in Ardeshir Khorreh 2005-2006, Fars, Iran Provenance studies on prehistoric gold by Andrea Squitieri, Jens Rohde Complex and Gird-i Rostam, in the Michele De Marco, Lorenzo Nigro Bronze Age Palace 2018-2020 Islamic conquest in Near East Natufian Period using LA-QICP-MS? mountain region of Iraqi Kurdistan

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Household Processes and Social Practice Ebla and Yamkhad: Evolution of Old Carlo G. Cereti, Barbara Shedding Light on the Urban/Rural Nexus Suzanne Richard, Jesse C. Long Jr., Dendrochronology - Possibilities and During the Late Ubaid – Late Chalcolithic Syrian Kingship Ideology through 16:30-17:00 Faticoni, Gianfilippo Terribili, Paikuli Project: seasons 2018 and 2019 about 2500 BCE: the 2019 Excavations at Alexander Janus Michael Lewis Paolo Matthiae Marta D'Andrea Limits 1 in the Shahrizor. A Case Study from Visual Communication in Middle Massimiliano Vassalli Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan Gurga Chiya Bronze I and II

Shaping City-Scapes, Controlling Land- Detecting Archaeological Damage from The View from the North (Part II). The Finding Meaning in the Medieval Midden: Scapes, Creating Territories. Strategies Cereals, nuts, tubers or seeds? Results of the Fieldwork at Tell Bleibil in Space using Open Source Satellite Data emergence and spread of the Chaff-Faced- 17:00-17:30 Alexander Ahrens the Southern Jordan Valley and the Survey Bethany Walker What Ceramic Dumps Reveal about Hassan el-Hajj Chaterine Marro Frances Pinnock of Territorial Control at Ebla during the Amaia Arranz-Otaegui Revisiting the Natufian plant-based and Machine Learning: The Case of the Ware oikumenè as seen from the Araxes in the Wadi Shuʿaib, Jordan, 2018–2019 Household Consumption Mature Early Syrian Period and the Old subsistence Near East valley (4900-3500 BC) Syrian Period

Tomasz Waliszewski, Urszula The Warka Environs Survey. The use of Mapping Sprig Ware across Greater The Ebla Region from the Early to the Household & Death at LPPNB Baʻja / Christoph Purschwitz, Marion Wicenciak, Krzysztof Domżalski, Late Roman–Byzantine pottery dumped UAV 3D Photogrammetry and geographic Mesopotamia. A ‘technological Landscape’ Marta D'Andrea, Agnese Middle Bronze Age: Reading Socio- Ritual traditions and the reconstitution 17:30-18:00 Jordan. Summary on the 2016-2019 Jan Hubert, Max Haibt information systems for the archaeological Paola Sconzo, Silvia Amicone Leore Grosman Benz, Hans Georg K. Gebel Ingrid Périssé-Valéro, Marcin into large water cistern in Chhim, Lebanon Approach to the Production and Vacca Cultural Changes in Patterns of of Natufian society Seasons of Excavations. research in the ancient city of Uruk and its Wagner, Agnieszka Szulc-Kajak Circulation of Pottery Settlement and Material Culture environment

Workshop (if 8. Tales from the garbage. Excavation, methodology and pottery processing of 7. Scientific Analyses in Archaeological Contexts -Possibilities and Limits in 23. Delineating the End of a World: Chronological Indicators and Material 21. The Natufian at 90: Synthesis and Review present) the dumping deposits in the Near East from the Roman to the Islamic period Western Asian Archaeology cultural Changes at the end of the Ubaid Period in Greater Mesopotamia

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 3. Hammering the material world 7. Endangered cultural heritage 8. Islamic archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 6. Networked archaeology 3. Hammering the material world Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in From the 4th Millennium to the 3rd CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Fragmentation vs unity: A Political history of Aleppo before the War. A Project to 2nd Millennium BC Northern Recent Archaeological Research in the Millennium BC in Southern Mesopotamia. Modes of production and distribution of Analysis and the Reconstruction of 14:00-14:30 Luigi Turri Northern Lebanon during the Bronze and Iron Lisa Doro, Costanza Coppini Ahmed Fatima Kzzo Archive Inscriptions dated to Ottoman Haeedeh Laleh, Zahra Lorzadeh Sara Pizzimenti Alexander Pruß Timothy P. Harrison Mesopotamia: The view from Gir-e Urban Historic Landscape of Nishapur The Late Uruk-Early Dynastic I Sequence Near Eastern Terracotta figurines Human-Environment Interaction in the Ages Period in Aleppo Region Gomel of Area A at Tell Zurghul/Nigin Ancient Near East

Jars and Sherds in the Flux of History: Plants' circulation in the Persian Gulf and Detecting Children Agency in Youssef Kanjou, R. Del Fabbro, The documentation of archaeological The Old and the New at al-Hiba/Lagash: Climate of the Ancient Near East from Between Land and Sea: The Chekka Region Second Millennium BCE Ceramic Vladimir Dabrowski, Margareta the Arabian Sea during the Islamic period: Coroplastic Production. Guidelines for Deepak Chandan, Richard Francesca Manclossi, Steven A. Adventures in the Flint Trade: Revisiting 14:30-15:00 Karin Kopetzky, Jakob Rom Ilaria Calini M. Al Najjar, M. Fansa, K. heritage in Aleppo and its hinterland, Steve Renette, Sara Pizzimenti Exploring the Way Forward for Barbara Bolognani the Early Holocene (9000 kya) to the in Lebanon Assemblages from Qasr Shemamok (Iraqi Tengberg new archaeobotanical data from eastern the Interpretation of Clay Figurines as Peltier Rosen the Tabular Scraper System Kohlmeyer Syria Mesopotamian Ceramic Studies Middle Holocene (6000 kya) Kurdistan) Arabia Children’s Entertainment Products

Identity of a countryside. The rural village Investigating a lithic production and New Discovery of Phoenician Batroun, Digital 3D models of the IS looters’ ED III/Akkadian Pottery: Chaîne The use of stone molds for terracotta Agent-Based Modelling of Human- Daniele Moscone, Giacomo Jeanine Abdul Massih, Shinichi of Helawa and the settlement of Aliawa in Juan Aguilar, Ammar Hatem Najm, Akyrtash, the first Islamic monument in distribution network: the case of 15:00-15:30 northern Lebanon: Iron Age-Persian Period Valentina Oselini tunnels under the Nebi Yunus Mosque, Alastair Northedge Marta Zingale, Licia Romano opératoire and behavioural sequence as Adi Erlich figurines and lamps in Late Roman Lynn Welton Climate Interactions in the Ancient Eramo, Ignazio Allegretta, Nishiyama the 2nd millennium BC: pottery and Stéphane Bordas Kazakhstan, and its interpretation Canaanean blades from the Northern Iraqi occupations Mosul and their informative potential seen from Abu Tbeirah’s Evidence Palestine Near East Cecilia Conati Barbaro contexts Kurdistan

Metalworking at Arslantepe village VI Ceramic Traditions of Southern There’s a Figurine at Bottom of the Sea: Resolving Timescale and Multi-Year A view from the coast: The Kubba Coastal 2nd Millennium BC Pottery Material from Antonella De Angelis, Cristina B2 (EBA): preliminary data from a use- 15:30-16:00 Jennie Bradbury Juliette Mas Jacopo Bruno Mesopotamia: some Thoughts on the Meir Edrey Methodological Approaches to Dealing Sturt Manning Human-Scale Climate Impacts in the Survey Project, 2016-2019 Bash Tapa (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) Lemorini wear and residues approach on macro- Ceramic Assemblages of Tell Baqarat 7-8 with Terracottas found Underwater East Mediterranean lithic tools

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

Graham Philip, Lucie The Archaeological landscape of the inner Endangered archaeology and remote (Nothing but) Vessels: Chronology and Integrated digital and analytical Johnson, Lynn Welton, The Second Millennium BC Ceramic Isotopic Research as a Tool for Long-term developments in lithic region of Koura: a preliminary overview of Glenn M. Schwartz, Casey sensing in Palestine: disturbances and Between Tradition and Innovation: the Art Specificities of the Early Dynastic III and Valentina Vassallo, Sorin approaches to the study of dispersed Khaled el-Bashaireh, Abdulla 16:30-17:00 Marco Iamoni, May Haider Sequence from Kurd Qaburstan on the Pierfrancesco Izzo Ana Marija Grbanovic Melania Zingarello Reconstructing Human-Environment Flavia Amato production in Eastern Georgia: the cases the Bronze and Iron Age settlements and the Haughin threats in Salfit and Southern Nablus of Ilkhanid Stucco Revetment in Iran Akkadian Pottery in Southern Hermon clay figurines collections. The Ayia Irini Al-Shorman, Janet Erbil Plain Interaction in the Near East of Tsiteli Gorebi 5 and Aradetis Orgora local ceramic traditions Governorate Mesopotamia assemblage as a case-study Montgomery, Geoff Nowell, Darren Gröcke

Defining the Early Bronze IV Pottery From the chemical composition of clay Pottery from the Lebanese-German survey of Medieval urban sites of Northern Iraq in The Rural Ceramic Traditions of Middle Katleen Deckers, M. De Vegetation Reconstruction in the A Stone Bead Production Complex from Tell Shemshara - the early 2nd Mill. Assemblage in Southern Mesopotamia and Marianna Castiglione, Ida to the performance of rituals. The case Florine Marchand, Aurore 17:00-17:30 Hanan Charaf, Anis Chaaya the Akkar Plain: the Late Bronze and Iron Costanza Coppini, Jesper Eidem Lenka Starkova the sphere of archaeological remote Kyra Kaercher Islamic Western Asia: A Globalized Eleonora Mariani Gruchy, S. Riehl, V. CLaSS (Climate, Landscape, Settlement the beginning of the Indus Civilization at Sequence the Akkadian Settlement Patterns in the Oggiano of the figurines from the Phoenician cult Didier, David Sarmiento-Castillo Ages sensing (ARS) World Economy? Tumolo, D. Lawrence and Society) Project Chanhu-daro (Sindh, Pakistan) QADIS Survey Project place of Kharayeb (Lebanon)

Mohammad Ebrahim Zarei, Investigation the cause or causes of Backed bladelets and tanged points at Akkar Survey Project 2018 in a foothill area Social and political changes in the 2nd Intensive Survey Strategies and its Conceive a new dimension of Maria Pia Maiorano, Gregor Alexandre Tourovets, Mohammad damages seen on the Pithos Burials in Timurid imitations of Chinese porcelain in Sharbithat SHA-10 (Dhofar, Sultanate of 17:30-18:00 Zuzanna Wygnańska of Akkar province, Lebanon: on the trail of Simone Mühl millennium BCE occupation at Gird-i Valentina Bruccoleri, Jacopo Bruno Stephanie Rost, Angelo Di Michele potential to Inform Ceramic Chronology of Jaimee Uhlenbrock Studying Greek terracottas. What’s new. Jacopo Monastero documentation. 3D data management at Marchand, Jérémie Vosges, Masoumian, Hamid Ganjaeian, Marivan Province, Iran through remote- Turkmenistan Oman): technological issues and eluding Bronze and Iron Ages Shamlu, Iraqi Kurdistan the Umma Region (South Iraq) Karkemish Vincent Charpentier Mozhgan Seif Panahi sensing technology chronological implications

13. Pottery Traditions and Material Culture in 2nd Millennium BC Northern Workshop (if 1. Ceramic Traditions and Cultural Territories: New Research Approaches in 2. Standardizing Creativity. Analytical Tools for the Study of Clay 9. CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of 20. “Let the Stone Speak”: Status and Socioeconomic Implications of 19. The Bronze and Iron Age archaeological landscape of Western Lebanon Mesopotamia: Contacts and New Horizons in the Land between the Tigris and present) the Study of the South Mesopotamia Pottery Figurines in the Mediterranean and Near East Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East Protohistoric Lithic Productions in the Near East the Zagros

8 pril A 8th 8thApril (9:00-13:15)(9:00-13:15)

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology 2. Environmental archaeology 4. Cognitive archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 5. Modeling the past Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

An Assyrian Border City in the Shahrizor Archaeobotanical approaches to the study of Buried in the Senses: GIS and the Neolithic Earthen Architecture in the Agata Maria Catena 9:00-9:30 Shin'ichi Nishiyama Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Yasin Tepe Lucas Proctor fuel use practices in Northern Mesopotamia Phenomenology of Funerary Practice in Marta Lorenzon Eastern Mediterranean: a community of Calabrese Archaeological Project, 2016-2019 during the Chalcolithic and Iron Ages EBA North Mesopotamia knowledge and a community of practice

Marjan Mashkour, H. Davoudi, M. The Erbil Citadel ceramic corpus: A Omri Yagel, Shirly Ben- Djamali, S. Shidrang, F. Biglari, M. An Experimental Firing Study of Clay and Sounding of Tepe Ghazanchi, a PPN site near Luca Colliva, Serenella preliminary analysis of main productions Andrea Orendi, Aharon Tavger, Agricultural resources of Iron Age Judah: The MBA Funerary Enclosures: Life, Death Tatsundo Koizumi, Hitoshi Dor Evian, Yehudit After the empire: New Finds on Egypt’s 9:30-10:00 Tengberg, M. Orange, M. Rahmati, Holly Winter Pigments that Replicate those found in Kermanshah (Iran) Mancini and their relationships with archaeological Itzhaq Shai archaeobotanical material from Tel Burna and Rulership in MBA Canaan Ojima, Yuji Sogabe Harlavan, Hadas Seri, Copper Supply during the 21st Dynasty B. Moradi, S. Doost, R. Khazaeli, Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic Artefacts stratigraphy Erez Ben-Yosef H. Fathi, Z. Fathi

The Italian Archaeological Expedition in Early Bronze Age in South-Eastern New evidence for copper trade between (Re)constructing a space for the dead: new Excavation at Gheshlagh chel Amiran in 5th the Erbil Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq). The role of Heavy Residue data analysis in Arabia. The formation of complex social Claudio Giardino, Carlo The earliest copper smelting activity in Egypt and the Levant in the Third 10:00-10:30 Mahnaz Sharifi Luca Peyronel Karolina Joka Maurizio Cattani Giulia Ragazzon evidence on burial practices from Massimiliano Nuzzolo millenium BC A Summary of four seasons of unravelling Çatalhöyük past and economic structure according the Bottaini, Conrad Schmidt Southeastern Arabia Millennium BC. The Palermo Stone in Southern Mesopotamia excavations at Helawa (2016-2019) archaeological evidence of coastal region context

How easy is it to say dolphin? An Spatiotemporal patterns of copper supply Early Prehistoric occupations and settling Water, Gods, and Kings. The Discovery Bogdana Milić, Barbara Horejs, Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, Marco Nicolì, Felix Höflmayer, Agricultural setting at the Bronze Age city of Elena Maini, Matteo Bormetti, analytical protocol to define cetacean taxa Networks of knowledge in the Neolithic networks in Anatolia and Northern 10:30-11:00 patterns in the Sirvan and Chardavol Valley of the Assyrian Canal and Rock Reliefs in Amy Richardson Martina Massimino Lily Niakan Hasan Ahmed Qasim Katharina Streit, Simone Riehl Tel Lachish Youri van den Hurk and their importance for the prehistoric Zagros Mesopotamia during the Late Chalcolithic of the Central Zagros, Iran Faida (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) communities of coastal Oman and Early Bronze Age

Workshop (if 12. The Archaeology of Oman and UAE present)

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 7. Endangered cultural heritage 8. Islamic archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 1. Field reports Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Daria Montanari, Mohammed Ali Akyol, Emine Torgan Ghayyada, Gaia Cecconi, Bethlehem. Sapienza University of Rome What were the earliest dome chambers in Niloofar Ehteshami, Leila The Iconology of Horse in Late Sasanian Tel Esur: Summary of Ten Seasons of Technology as magic and vice versa in the Güzel, Recep Karadağ, Archaeometric Analysis of Substances 9:00-9:30 Milena Gošić Alessandra Guari, and Palestinian Ministry of Tourism & Lorenz Korn Iranian mosques? An Archaeological Marina Pucci Neo-Assyrians in the Amuq Khosravi, Mehdi Mousavi Stuccos from Jahāngir Site, Ilām Bar Shay Excavations and a long-lasting late prehistory of the Levant Vecihi Özkaya, Yılmaz Selim Coated on Skeletons from Körtik Tepe Pierfrancesco Izzo, Iman Z. Antiquities rescue excavations 2015-2020 Perspective Kouhpar Province, Iran Community Archaeology Project Erdal, Kameray Özdemir Titi, Lorenzo Nigro

Ianir Milevski, M. From the Realm of the Villagers to the Marion Benz, Joachim Bauer, Creating Relations – Investigating the social Glocalization, Power and Resistance: the Czarnowicz, A. Ochał- Tel Erani: The Early Bronze IB defensive Rethinking the Excavation : Tell Barri Zone of Transition in Seljuq Dome Chambers 3rd millennium BC bituminous stone Aydin Abar, Natascha Realm of the Numinous: Religious Czarnowicz, J. Karmowski, 9:30-10:00 Christoph Purschwitz, Hans Georg impact of symbols in LPPNB burial rituals of Raffaella Pierobon Benoit Behruz Omrani Emilie Badel Mariacarmela Montesanto Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Northern walls and the early urbanization in (Syria) in the light of new studies of Iran industry at Susa, Khuzistan Bagherpour, Thomas Stöllner Practice in Rural Late Iron Age to Y. Yekutieli, E. Cohen- K. Gebel the southern Levant Levant: a pottery perspective southwestern Canaan Sasanian Central Iranian Highlands Sasson, M. Campagno and D. Yegorov

Ritual Complexes along Main Roads in Technological analysis of the pottery in Gone with the Water: Flooded heritage Judaea Subsequent to the Bar Kokhba Revolt: Amin Moradi, Marco G. The Mausoleum of Ali-Shah: Fifty Years of Red Slip pottery from Zincirli: connecting A Meaningful Landscape? The Sanctuary the Dinka Settlement Complex (Iraqi 10:00-10:30 Orit Peleg-Barkat Jesper Eidem and second-phase salvage in the Middle Sebastiano Soldi Francesca Giusto Jean-Jacques Herr A Means for Demonstrating New Roman Brambilla Misunderstanding Syria and Anatolia in the Iron Age of Shami and Its Setting Kurdistan) for the late second Millennium East Control? Horvat Midras as a Test Case and the early first Millennium BC

Provincial Clays, Imperial Pots? Assyrians in the Land of Nineveh: a Hidemasa Hashimoto, Cultic architecture in the 1st millennium BCE Surveying and excavating after the war: Production, Distribution and preliminary overview on settlement Takuzo Onozuka, Excavation at lower shelf of Tel Rekhesh 10:30-11:00 Sebastiano Lora at Taymāʾ (NW Arabia): a comparative Mathilde Mura methodological and ethical questions for Sandra Aube Ceramic tile decoration in 15th-century Tabriz Liora Bouzaglou Consumption of Assyrian-style Ceramics Katia Gavagnin patterns and an analysis of pottery Hisao Kuwabara, 2006-2010, 2019 approach. the future in the Southern Levant (8th – 7th centuries collected among the Land of Nineveh Shuichi Hasegawa BCE) Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan

Workshop (if present)

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Plenary session 11:25-13:15 (Chair: Nicolò Marchetti) Presentations (10 mins.) by the Directors General, countries are listed in geographical order from North to South along an East-West axis

TURKEY: Yahya Coşkun - Deputy Director General of the Directorate General for Cultural IRAN: Behrouz Omrani - Chairman of the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Heritage and Museums, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ankara (representing Gökhan Yazgı, Tourism, RICHT, Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Teheran Director General)

IRAQ: Laith Hussein - Chairman of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, SBAH, Kurdistan Regional Government, IRAQ: Kaifi Mustafa Ali - Director General of Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Baghdad Antiquity, Erbil

SYRIA: Lina Kutiefan - Director of the World Heritage Sites Management, Directorate CYPRUS: Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou - Director of the Department of Antiquities, General of Antiquities & Museums, DGAM, Damascus (representing Nazir Awad - Director Ministry of Transport, Communication and Works, Nicosia General, DGAM)

PALESTINIAN NATIONAL AUTHORITY: Jehad Yasin - Director General of the LEBANON: Sarkis Khoury - Director General of the Directorate General of Antiquities, Palestinian Department of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, DACH, Ministry of Tourism and DGA, Ministry of Culture, Beirut Antiquities, Ramallah

EGYPT: Moamen Othman - Head of the Museums Sector, Supreme Council of Antiquities, JORDAN: Ahmad Jum'a Al-Shami - Director General of the Department of Antiquities, SCA, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Cairo (representing Mostafa Waziry, Secretary Ministry of Culture, Amman General, SCA)

SAUDI ARABIA: Abdullah Al-Zahrani - Director General of Archaeological researches OMAN: Sultan Saif Al-Bakri - Director General for Archaeology, Ministry of Heritage and and studies, Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, SCTH, Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Muscat Riyadh

9 April 8th (14:00-18:00) 8th April (14:00-18:00)

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology 2. Environmental archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 3. Hammering the material world Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Nineveh East 2019 and 2020. The first The effects of the Iron Age social Patterns Amidst Entropy? A Quantitative Hygienic Practices in the Late Bronze Age Identifying plaster recipes, material Absolute chronology for the Hittite northern Changing River Courses and Settlement Francesco Genchi, Alfredo Coppa, Elisabeth Holmqvist, two seasons of archaeological excavations complexity on the funerary aspects: new Investigation into the Development of (c. 1600-1130 b.c.): Evidence for the First sources, and anthropogenic residues of 14:00-14:30 Pavol Hnila, Sturt Manning frontier. Combining stratigraphy, tree-rings Nicolò Marchetti Susanne Rutishauser Patterns in Cilicia (Turkey) from the Marco Ramazzotti, Nunzia Larosa, Rana Zaher Blandine Besnard Paula Kouki, Rick and conservation activities of the Iraqi- perspectives from the Dībba burial Sculptural Traditions and Stylistic Motifs Washroom Facilites and Their Uses in the Jewish ritual purification baths in Late and radiocarbon at Oymaağac Höyük Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period Francesca De Cataldo Bonnie Italian Expedition complex (Musandam, Oman) in Portal Lions of Iron Age Syro-Anatolia Southern Levant Hellenistic–Early Roman Palestine

Landscape survey in cross-check. Comparing Gideon's Moons (Jud 8:21) - Lunar Anatolia from the Chalcolithic to the Iron The Indus Civilization Trade with the The horses in the neo-assyrian reliefs: Alexey A. Tishkin, Results of X-ray fluorescence analysis of Margherita Andrea Valsecchi Late Bronze Age surface collections, The Darband-i Rania Archaeological Dennys Frenez, Jonathan Mark worship in Palestine in the first 14:30-15:00 John MacGinnis Anne Landskron Age: A Study of Human-Environment Umm an-Nar Communities of the Oman Margaux Spruyt characterization of physical types and their Andrzej Łukasz Jędrzejczak Nadezhda A. Dubova, metallic seals from Gonur Depe Gillmeister geophysical prospections and excavation data Project, 2018 and 2019 Seasons Kenoyer, Sophie Méry millennium BC in the perspective of Dynamics Peninsula. A New Paradigm? evolution Nikolay N. Seregin archaeological complex (Turkmenistan) Oymaağaç Höyük/Nerik (Turkey) archaeological research

Settlement patterns as mirror: resilience and A waterlogged wood complex from the Excavations at the Early Neolithic site of Khaled Douglas, Nasser Al- Umm an-Nar Settlement at Dahwa 7, A Crater Fragment with a Lion Figure Steatite Scarabs from the Second Roger Matthews, Wendy renovate subsistence strategies of the Jericho: from the Neolithic to the Bronze Noa Ranzer, Ido Koch, 15:00-15:30 Dirk Paul Mielke underground spring chamber of Oymaağaç Bestansur, Sulaimaniyah province, Iraqi Maria Tamburrini Jahwari, Mohamad Hesein, North Al-Batinah, Oman: Excavations Mona Saba from Oluz Höyük: An Assessment on the Lorenzo Nigro Millennium BCE Southern Levant: A Matthews Southern Levant communities in the aftermath and Iron Ages: the urban diversity Yuval Gadot Höyük/Nerik Kurdistan Kimberly D. Williams 2018-2021 Iranian Archaeology Chaîne Opératoire Approach of the Late Bronze Age Crisis

Surveying the Western Borderlands of the Elusive Phoenicians: Perceptions of Landscape and Settlement on the Erbil The iconography of Storm God during the 15:30-16:00 Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver Hittite Empire: Polatlı Landscape Jason Ur, Nader Babakr Lamia Sassine Phoenician identity and material culture as Tiffany Ftaimi Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq Neo-Assyrian period Archaeology and Survey Project reflected in museum records and displays

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Kunara: an Early Bronze Age city in the Two Umm an Nar period settlements in Reading animal and human figures in the Dengxiao Lang, Maurits W. Conceptualizing and implementing an agent- The shared bestiary : glyptic traditions 16:30-17:00 Aline Tenu Zagros foothills. The 2018 and 2019 Piotr Bieliński the mountains of north-western Oman Mattia Cartolano Pre-Pottery Neolithic communities of the Delphine Poinsot Ertsen based model of an irrigation system from Achaemenian to Sasanian Seasons of Excavations. (Wadi Qumayrah valley) Near East

Claudia Beuger, Raphaela New Research on Ancient Iranian Lived Umm an-Nar Society: Reading Anacleto D'Agostino, Valentina New results from recent excavations at Uşaklı Heitmann, Sarah Schlüter, Late Bronze/Iron Age landscape of the Monica Arrivabeni, Sturt “Rod and ring” - pictorial rendering of “all Assemblages in US Museums: 17:00-17:30 Akkadian Accuracy Jennifer Swerida complexity at the UNESCO World Nicolas Assur Corfù Alexander Nagel Orsi Höyük Abdulwahhab Suleiman Khalifan district (Soran, Iraqi Kurdistan) Manning, Harvey Weiss the heavenly ME”? Collaborations and “Earth Matters” at Heritage Site of Bat Hasan SUNY

The Peshdar Plain Project 2015-2020: The archaeological landscape of Tūlūl al- The Upper Town of Sirkeli Höyük: Fictonal History: Creating Historical Janoscha F. Kreppner, Investigating an Iron Age Settlement on Baqarat: a preliminary reconstruction of the Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Dennys Coastal Crossroads: HD-1 Site at Ras Al- Riding in the Near East in the 3rd and 2nd 17:30-18:00 Alexander Sollee Preliminary Results of the 2018–2019 Eleonora Quirico Laerke Recht Felix Levenson Narratives by the Re-Use of “Old” Andrea Squitieri the Assyrian Empire`s Eastern Frontier territory and settlement patterns’ main Frenez, Maurizio Cattani Hadd, Sultanate of Oman millennium BCE investigations at Bekçi Kulübesi Artefacts (Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq) transformations over the millennia

Workshop (if 12. The Archaeology of Oman and UAE present)

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 5. Modeling the past 7. Endangered cultural heritage 8. Islamic archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 1. Field reports Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

The Heritage of the Saltmen of Zanjan – Regional Developments and Inter- A Glimpse into the Hittite Culinary Culture Imāmzāda ʿAbdallāh-i Kudzar, Iran: New Negotiating the Practice of Popular Some pottery imports from Pyla- Kültepe and its Neighbors in the Early Natascha Bagherpour, Maruchi Sustainable Preservation Strategies in Times Iman Aghajani, Moslem Agnese Vacca, Marta Regional Connections: The Northern Lutz Martin, Alexander E. 14:00-14:30 Özlem Heper and Consumption Habits through the Fikri Kulakoğlu Insights regarding its Architectural Religion Between Local Traditions and Ioanna Kostopoulou Kokkinokremos (Cyprus), and what they Bronze Age Yoshida of Social Transformation and Volatile Political Mishmastnehi, Maryam Moeini D'Andrea Levant from the Mid to the Late 3rd Sollee Statistics of Tableware and Cooking Ware Revetments Imperial Ideology: The Case of Tell Halaf can tell Climate Millennium BC

Settlement Pattern, Land-use and Rashidiyya in Tabriz: Review of 100 Reaching the river: cultural encounters Christine Johnston, Innovation and Adaptation: Ceramic Analysis of Neolithization in Lowlands Demographic Dynamics in the Navkur Plain Murat Türkteki, Sinem Inland western Anatolia and its Role Pascal Butterlin, Alexander Science diplomacy and archaeology, the inside Maryam Kavyannia, Bahram Seyyed Kamal Asadi, 14:30-15:00 Francesca Simi Years of Historical and Archaeological Candida Felli between Inner Syria and the Middle Lindy Crewe, Artemios Development across the Middle-Late of South-Eastern Caspian Sea: (Kurdistan Region of Iraq) from the Early Türkteki during the Age of Interconnections Pruss H 2020 project and Mari Ajorloo, Thomas Lorain Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti Investigations Euphrates valley Oikonomou Cypriot Horizon Questions and Hypothesis Bronze Age to the Iron Age

An approach to material religion: Change and continuity in the production Approaching Demography and Economy in UNESCO’S role in the protection of cultural Pot sealing practice in the Northern Levant Connecting spaces, material culture and Architectural Remains on the area of of pottery in times of upheaval: The case 15:00-15:30 Jason T. Hermann, Sconzo Paola Piedmont Landscapes during the Neo Joanne Dingwall McCafferty heritage during armed conflict in Yemen, Christian Fuchs, Bahram Ajorloo Valentina Tumolo during the 3rd millennium BC: between Laneri Nicola practices in the interpretation of human Teresa Bürge Rabʿ–e Rashidi, Tabriz of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, in the 13th Assyrian Period Syria and Iraq connectivity and regionalism religiosity among small-scale societies in to 12th centuries BCE the ancient Near East

Irano- German Expedition to the The Changing Face of Private and Public A 3D chaine opératoire approach to the Pan-Regional Settlement Estimates for the The Arid Margins of the steppe of Martina Polig, Sorin Dan Lawrence, Michelle de Caucasian Cocktails: The Early Use of Germany as a trade hub for illicit Near Eastern Archaeological Site of Rab'e Rashidi, Marie-Odile Rousset, George Religious Practice in Mesopotamia in the study of Late Bronze Age cylinder seals – 15:30-16:00 Fertile Crescent over the last 8000 years: Stephen Batiuk Luise Loges Bahram Ajorloo, Lorenz Korn Northern Syria during the 3rd millenium: Nett Seraina Hermon, Teresa Bürge, Gruchy, Alessio Palmisano Alcohol in “The Cradle of Wine” antiquities Tabriz, Iran: New Ideas & Renewal Mouamar Second Half of the Third Millennium a case study from Hala Sultan Tekke, Possibilities and Pitfalls specificities and interractions Peter Fischer Works BCE Cyprus

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Production and Exchange of Dedicated ICT tools to help heritage Ebla and the Greater Levant. Overlapping “Phoenician” Pottery - A Measuring social patterns of convergence in The implications of partage for legacy data Social patterns of religious activity at the 16:30-17:00 Andrea Squitieri, Mark Altaweel Kyle Olson Ousama Rumayed professionals register, retrieve and share data Marco Bonechi Palace G Textual Data to Recent Mónica Palmero Fernández Michael Rummel multidisciplinary analysis of locally the large empires of the Near East re-use in the archaeology of Iran site of Khafajah in the 3rd millennium BC about areas in conflict Archaeological Discoveries produced “daily used pottery” from the central Levant

The Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Irrigation management, labor investment and Altars, Shrines and Niches: The Ninni-ZAZA et Gishtarat: L’inventaire Revisiting Deh Luran Archaeological Resource Management Initiative, Jordan: a Shrines of Badr al-Din Lu’lu‘ in Mosul: Entangled Worlds: Networks of Northern Israelite Temples of the Iron 17:00-17:30 Simone Mantellini environmental constraints in the semi-arid Mitra Panahipour Jack D.M. Green Karel Nováček, Miroslav Melčák Marta Luciani Kristina Sieckmeyer É.ZAG.GAR.RA and Domestic Worship Erin Hall Sophie Cluzan des temples en regard de la nouvelle Landscape community-based approach to archaeological An ex-post reconsideration Connectivity in Desert Oases and Beyond IIA steppe of Samarkand (Uzbekistan) in Bronze Age Mesopotamia approche architecturale heritage preservation

People, Climate and Empires in North Persian Chahartaqs or so-called fire Merchants and Self-Commemoration: the Tzilla Eshel, Yigal Erel, The shift from Phoenician to Greek Mojgan Shafiee, Michele Recent Archaeological Project of Mesopotamia: Archaeological Demography temples of Fars region: Architecture and Ali Nemati Babaylou, Nava Tileworks Typology of Tabriz before Arnulf Hausleiter, Alexander Arabia and the Levant: Tracing intersection of religious practice and Naama Yahalom-Mack, maritime trade during the Late Iron Age: 17:30-18:00 Rocco Palermo Sarvenaz Parsa Nancy Highcock Casanova, Hekmat Orzu'iyeh valley: Excavations at Tepe and Past Climatic Data between the Assyrians landscape specifications of Chahartaq sites Motmaen Turkmens Städtler connectivity professional identity in the ancient Near Ofir Tirosh, Ayelet New insights based on the provenance of Molasalehi, Nasir Eskandari Vakilabad, Kerman, South-East Iran and the rise of Islam in Fars province of Iran East Gilboa silver hoards in the Southern Levant

4. Entangled Narratives: Regional Developments and Inter-Regional Workshop (if 16. Reconstructing Population Dynamics from Eastern Mediterranean to Central Connections during the Second Half of the 3rd Millennium BC in the 10. Socioscapes of Ancient Near Eastern Popular Religion present) Asia. Challenging Ancient Demography through Landscape Archaeology Northern Levant

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology 2. Environmental archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology 3. Hammering the material world Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Chalcolithic World Full of Painted Pottery: Analysis of ceramic data from survey in the Preliminary results from the bio- Naime Younes, Renata Tracing Village Entanglements and Communities 9:00-9:30 Sawssan Alachkar western Upper Khabur (Syria): some archaeological research at Tell Helewa, Miranda Evans Cremation and the Dead in EB I Jericho Takehiro Miki Perego, Claudia Minniti of Pottery Production in the 5th millennium BCE preliminary results on the Early Bronze Age Southwest Erbil Plain, Kurdistan, Iraq of South-Central Iran

The cultural landscape of the Iranian Province of In the middle of wilderness? Environment Depositional patterns of temple artifacts in Social Construct of Fire Technologies in The Palace at Tell Sakka: New insights into the A Yarmoukian Site in Wadi Quseiba, 9:30-10:00 Samar Shammas Ted Banning, Kevin Gibbs Giulio Maresca Kermanshah during Late Antiquity: Sasanian Michaël Seigle exploitation around Kunara (Kurdistan, Maria-Sidonia Obreja Mari during the Second City period, 2550- Claire Padovani Productive Context: Modelling Early Bronze end of the Middle Bronze Age in Southern Syria Northern Jordan impact and long-term trends Iraq) 2300 BC Age Kiln-Systems of Logardan, Iraqi Kurdistan

Jebel al-Mutawwaq and the Middle Wadi Fixing the time of Middle to Late Bronze Age az-Zarqa region during the IV millennium Investigating of the settlements pattern ofthe Praise the Negative - The Diffusion of Late Iconography of Winged Angels on Continuity of local ceramic traditions at Kınık Kazuya Shimogama, Resilience and sustainability. Çatalhöyük Martina Derada, Andrea 10:00-10:30 pottery and cuneiform texts: new evidence from Alessandra Caselli BC: results of a comprehensive research Fatemeh Alizadeh Parthian period in the Bahukalat river basin of Arkadiusz Marciniak Giulia Tucci, Amir Golani Bronze Age Syro-Canaanite Jewelry Yasaman Nabati Mazloumi Parthian Coins State Uniformity or Höyük (Southern Cappadocia): late Achaemenid Hirotoshi Numoto and the 8.2-kyBP climate event Trameri Tell Taban, northeastern Syria based on the reanalysis of the Hanbury- Iran based on geographic substrates According to Two-part Stone Molds Religious Conflict? pottery from the “NW Building” Tenison’s survey

Picotti Vincenzo, Simone Burying the dead and the multi-stage funerary The Development of Waterscapes in Early Pottery and urbanisation in the EBA Northern Tell Ushayer – A Late Bronze Age Mantellini, Nicolò Marchetti, 10:30-11:00 Sari Jammo rituals at Tell el-Kerkh cemetery, Northwest Dominik Bonatz Southern Mesopotamia: New Results Mathilde Jean Levant: ceramic petrography at Tell Arqa and Fortress in North Jordan Jacopo Monastero, Federico Syria from the Qadis Survey Project beyond Zaina

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Representing Cultural Encounters at Beni Chiara Fiaccavento, M. Tell Abu Zarad, a major site in central Dūmat al-Jandal, ancient Adummatu. An New data on the animal exploitation at Shahr-i Hassan, Egypt: Continuity, Jaradat, B. Helmi, M. Palestine: Sapienza University of Rome Alberto Potenza, Claudia The Early Bronze Age Murayghat Bowls - Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan: an 11:30-12:00 Romolo Loreto appreisal of 12 years of archaeological activities Sokhta (Iran): first results from the analysis of Susanne Kerner Nathaniel L. Erb-Satullo Innovating Iron in the South Caucasus Anna-Latifa Mourad Transformation, and the Shifting Roles of Barbara Couturaud Tamburrini, P. Izzo, M. and Palestinian Ministry of Tourism & Minniti an example of commensal eating? introduction in a North Arabian oasis the animal remains found at the Workshop 33 Local Officials in ‘Foreign’ Relations of Musa, A. Dass, L. Nigro Antiquities excavations 2015-2020 the Early Second Millennium BC

ʿEn Esur (Asawir), an EBIB Urban Grains from cist 2900 at Gonur Depe as an Pseudo-settlement phenomenon: A key to Water, Landscapes and Settlements along Settlement Patterns as a tool for understanding Center at the Coastal Plain of Israel and its Pernille Bangsgaard, Lisa New faunal results from the on-going work at Liliia Sataeva, Sataev Robert, information source on the agrotechnics of the The symbolic power of munumental 12:00-12:30 Sumio Fujii tracing the initial process of pastoral Itai Elad, Yitzhak Paz Andrea Titolo the River. Case Studies from the Syrian Oren Siegel Jessica Giraud the cultural phenomenon of the Early Bronze Role in the Early Urbanization of the Yeomans Ganj Dareh, Iran Dubova Nadezhda ancient population of Bronze Age enclosure walls in pharaonic Egypt nomadization in the southern Levant Middle Euphrates Age in Northern Mesopotamia Southern Levant Turkmenistan

‘En Esur: An Extraordinary Early Zooarchaeological analysis of the Lower Palace Farmers, herders or agropastoralists? New Between Tigris et Zagros Piedmont: a material- The Azraq oasis in antiquity: a reassessment Eleonora Serrone, Elena Kamal Rasheed, Melania 12:30-13:00 Harmen Huigens Dina Shalem Chalcolithic Settlement in the southern Area of Karkemish (Gaziantep, Turkey): Area C Luca Forni data from the material culture of Togolok 1 cultural perspective from Logardan during the based on aerial photographs from the 1920s Maini Zingarello Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron IV period (Southern Turkmenistan) Early Bronze Age

Workshop (if 3. Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan. Recontextualisation of Archaeological present) Data

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Theme 5. Modeling the past 5. Modeling the past 3. Hammering the material world 8. Islamic archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology All themes Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

To import and to imitate: the role of Sealing practices in the Near East during the Late Similarities and variations – the caliphal Ceramic innovations and conservatisms in Alessandro Di Ludovico, Lorenzo Mazzotta, Laerke imported Aegean pottery in Late Bronze Martin Gussone, Dorothée The Karum Period and the Origins of the Mathematical Investigation of Glyptic 9:00-9:30 Claudia D'Orazio Bronze II period: aspects of inter-regional Yuval Yekutieli The Desert, the Sown and the Egyptian Colony residence of Resafa – Rusafat Hisham in Alessandra Cellerino Hellenizing Elymais: the glazed pottery from Monika Kozlakowska Franco Alberto Cardillo, Recht Age Cyprus. Hala Sultan Tekke as a case Sack Minoan Body Scheme Iconographies: A New Synthesis integration in the age of internationalism context of transcultural urbanism Shami Umberto Straccia study

Solar Symbols and Solar Eclipses from People, Pottery and Death: Social Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm The monumental gate of Tol-e Ajori, Pearl profusion: the economic consequences of EBA Local Histories and Difference on the Pierfrancesco Callieri, Alireza Archaic Cyprus and the Ancient Near Bruce Routledge, Kevin Lively weapons on land and sea: Objectscapes 9:30-10:00 Deborah Hope Rafael Laoutari dynamics in the Prehistoric Bronze Age Meredith S. Chesson Itamar Taxel, Joel Roskin agroecosystems in aeolian sand sheets (Persepolis, Fars): the archaeological contexts Anna Paule large-scale pearl production and trade southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan Askari Chaverdi East. Iconography, Written Evidence, and McGeough of the Late Bronze Levant site of Bellapais-Vounous along the Mediterranean coast of Israel of the discovered decorated bricks Modern Computation

Nadezhda A. Dubova, N. N. Cultural Continuity and Asymmetry Through the Modelling Gaia: towards an Actor-Network Luca Bombardieri, Marialucia Rituality in increasing complexity. The The West Gate of the Great Mosque of Skakun, A. V. Fribus, S. P. Stone miniature columns, disks and scepters of 10:00-10:30 Maurits Ertsen Aaron Gidding Levantine Early Bronze Age: A View from the Katia Cytryn-Silverman Emad Matin Decorated bricks from Tol-e Ajori Grushin, A. M. Yuminov, V. modelling framework in archaeology Amadio evidence from Middle Bronze Age Erimi Ramla Margush country (Bronze Age Turkmenistan) Desert V. Terekhina, V. A. Agakhanova, Y. Tirkisheva

Cyprus between MCIII and LCI: Stefan Münger, Ido Koch, Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant: a multi- Preliminary remarks on Ottoman pottery intraregional and interregional Activity patterns and task-specific sites: desert 10:30-11:00 Silvia Schroer, Christoph faceted prism for studying entangled histories in Elena Peri Uri Davidovich Piotr Makowski from the Polish archaeological projects in Julien Cuny Achaemenid Brick Decoration in the Louvre Ben Haring An Ancient Egyptian pseudo-script connections. The case of the Limassol and perspectives on EBA regionalism Uehlinger an interdisciplinary perspective Lebanon Paphos regions

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

Defining “ceramic communities”: models of Between Text and Image: Potential Building big at the beginning of the Late The Reconstruction of the Glazed Brick interaction between settlements in the Northern The first urbanization in Southern Syria: Local Anja Fügert, Helen Gries, Obstacles to a Full Decipherment of the Ninni-ZA.ZA et Gishtarat: nouvelle approche 11:30-12:00 Gabriele Giacosa Lindy Crewe Bronze Age: evidence from Kissonerga- Christophe Nicolle Façades from Ashur in the Vorderasiatisches Aren Wilson-Wright Jean-Claude Margueron Levant during the Iron Age (12th-7th centuries scenarios for regional changes Fanny Alloteau Early Alphabetic Inscriptions from Serabit architecturale Skalia Museum (GlAssur-Project) BCE) el-Khadem

Mud-Brick Villages and Open-Air Scripts, pseudo-scripts, sketches and their Restitution virtuelle en 3D, problèmes, méthode, Vittoria Dall'Armellina, Elena What happens in the North? New approaches to Maria Eugenia Aubet Marks on Glazed Bricks of the Neo-Assyrian 12:00-12:30 Vasiliki Kassianidou Late Cypriote Hoards reconsidered The Early Bronze Age in Tyre Stephanie Döpper Mosques – The Late Islamic Landscape of May-Sarah Zeßin Sara Chiarini layout on ancient Greek and Roman curse Béatrice Muller limites et ressources: Le Grand Palais Royal de Rova old problems (workshop organaiser) Semmler Period from Ashur the Al-Mudhaybi Region in Central Oman tablets (6th century BC - 6th century AD) Mari

An archaeobotanical approach for the “Non-Luvo-Hittite Anatolia in the Bronze age: Federico Giusfredi, Alvise Dominika Kofel, Teresa study of ritual activities in Late Bronze The Regional Narrative of the Central Jordan Javad Jafari, Judith 12:30-13:00 the philological, linguistic and historical Yael Rotem, Mark Iserlis Ariane Thomas Khorsabad glazed bricks Tappe Rivi at the Dawn of the Persian Empire Matessi Bürge, Peter M. Fischer Age Cyprus: Hala Sultan Tekke as a case Valley in the EBA Thomalsky perspective” study

Workshop (if 6. Culture and Society in the Early Bronze Age Levant Regionalism, social 11. Pseudo-Scripts and Signs Yet to Be Deciphered: Transcultural 14. What happens in the North? New approaches to old problems 15. Prehistoric Cyprus: Economy and Society 5. Decorated Bricks of the Achaemenid Period and Their Forerunners present) boundaries and cultural transmission in the Levantine Early Bronze Age Dynamics of Scripts, Languages, and Artworks across Time and Space

11 9thAp Aprilril 9th(14:00-18:00) (14:00-18:00)

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Theme 1. Field reports 1. Field reports 2. Environmental archaeology 2. Environmental archaeology 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

Annarita Stefania Bonfanti, From Urartu to the Orontids Seven years (2013- Seleucia on the Tigris and its Landscape. Water A. Petrosyan, R. Dan, P. Roads, Artifacts, and installations: Symbolic Communication System in 2019) of Armenian-Italian excavations in the site Management and Exploitation Strategies of a Ormuz Strait archaeology. Holocene 14:00-14:30 Vitolo, T. Saccone, M. delle Norma Franklin Reconstructing the Settlement History of Enrico Foietta Sophie Méry, Federico Borgi Keita Takenouchi Offering Ritual in the Early Old Kingdom of Solak-1 / Varsak (KSP016), Hrazdan River Important Seleucid foundation in Central occupation of the NW Coastline Donne, L. Costantini, C. Jezreel in the Longue Duree Egypt Valley, Armenia Mesopotamia Zecchi, G. Moradi, L. Giorgi

The coexistence and interference of Urartian Priscilla Vitolo, V. Licheli, R. Elodie Brisset, Morteza Monumental Architecture on the Margins Samtskhe-Javakheti Project: Preliminary results Facing water shortages in ancient Iran: new Geophysical prospection in Archaeology: and local potting tradition in Transcaucasian Dan, T. Chogovadze, T. Djamali, Andrea Ricci, Silvia of the Syrian Desert: Spatial Analysis, 14:30-15:00 of the 2017-2019 Georgian-Italian evidence from sedimentary records of the Marion Scheiblecker From magnetogram to settlement patterns Mateusz Iskra hinterland between 8th and 6th century BC. Corinne Castel Chilingarishvili, A. Cesaretti, Balatti, Majid Naderi, Ahmad Functions and Rituals of the Sanctuary of Archaeological expedition in southern Georgia Southern Zagros and historical insights in Iraqi Kurdistan evidence from Metsamor and neighbouring T. Saccone Azadi, Pejman Firoozbakhsh Tell Al-Rawda (Early Bronze Age IV) area of the Ararat plain

«He who owns the soil, owns up to the Identification of the environmental impacts on Felix Blocher, Paata Excavations at the Late Bronze / Early Iron Age The Lebanon mountain range in the Archaeology in trenches: new methodological Tabasom Ilkhan, Dina Ignazio Minervini, Marco sky». Human-environment-climate archaeological human bones by FTIR: What this wall means – Early Bronze Age 15:00-15:30 Bukhrashvili, Shorena Site of Nazarlebi, Kacheti Region, Eastern Metoda Peršin Middle Bronze Age: the case of Qornet ed- approaches to the study of human-environment Francesca Chelazzi Moshir, Babak Rafiei-Alavi, Hanna Erftenbeck Madella, Girolamo Fiorentino coevolution in Prehistoric and Zāyandehrud River Basin in Iran, Kafarved- fortification walls in the Southern Levant Davitashvili Georgia, 2017 - 2019 Deir interactions at Shahr-i Sokhta - SE Iran Ali Shojaee-Esfahani Protohistoric Cyprus Varzaneh

Djamali Morteza, Elodie The introduction of shadûf irrigation to Egypt by Between the Fertile Crescent and South Brisset, Emmanuel Wetlands and palaeowetlands of the Persepolis On uncertain ground: modelling human Benjamin Mutin, Omran Dotan Traubman, Haim Ancient Mesopotamia: a sacred 15:30-16:00 Manfred Bietak immigrants during the Second Intermediate Asia: Tell-e Atashi and the Neolithic of Gandouin, Alain Véron, Basin; valuable archives of palaeoenvironmental Joe Roe palaeoecology in the Azraq basin, eastern Neby Yaqīn – Footprint in religion Cloe Curcio Garazhian Shkolnik landscape? Period the southern Lut Desert, Iran Sébastien Gondet, Marjan changes and human activities Jordan, 24,000–8,000 BP Mashkour

Sébastien Gondet, Kourosh Landscape formation and territorial development The benefits of accessible raw archaeological New results on Late Bronze II Karkemish ‘Scratching the surface’: A contextual Eight seasons in Hatnub calcite alabaster Quarry Hasan Peker, Nicolò Mohammadkhani, Marie- during the 1st millennium BC in the Pasargadae Hermann Genz, Karin First Investigations at the Site of Tell data: The Case for the Study of Lamps from 16:00-16:30 Yannis Gourdon from the Turco-Italian excavations: Ani Eblighatian Ilaria Bucci approach to the graffiti from Hatra, P (Middle Egypt) Marchetti Laure Chambrade, Morteza region (Fars Province, Iran): new data from Kopetzky Mirhan in Northern Lebanon Antioch-on-the-Orontes excavations (1932- Anatomy of an imperial administration Northern Iraq Djamali, Jean-Baptiste Rigot integrative geoarchaeological approach 1939)

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17:00-18:00 Closing plenary session (Chair: Ingolf Thuesen)

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Theme 3. Hammering the material world 5. Modeling the past 5. Modeling the past 3. Hammering the material world 3. Hammering the material world 4. Cognitive archaeology All themes Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title Author(s) Title

The North Remembers – A diachronic André Tomé, Steve Renette, Kani Shaie: Defining the Material Culture of the The role of regional centers in perspective on cultural memory and Pursuits of social status and power at Maa- Assyrian and Achaemenid Glazed Bricks at A map of “mis-scripting”: Pseudo- Divine messages encoded in writing – a case 14:00-14:30 Ricardo Cabral, Michael Early Third Millennium BCE in the Zagros Thomas Zimmermann Artemis Georgiou Ido Wachtel, Uri Davidovich interregional connectivity: Tel Qedesh and Kiersten Neumann Silvia Pedone Réka Esztári, Ádám Vér technology exchange in the Turco- Palaeokastro the Oriental Institute Museum writings and the ornamental impulse study of Daniel 5,25 Lewis, Alan Farahani Foothills Galilee in the Early Bronze Age I-II Caucasian Black Sea region

Uncontainable Concepts on the Edge: Anna Gomez Bach, Adrià Gird Laskhir: an Early Dynastic sequence In The Kura-Araxes and Transition to Mitchell Rothman, Hakob Francesca Porta, Valentina Pyla-Kokkinokremos in the LBA Mediterranean EB III Southern Canaan in Its Levantine Glazed architectural Elements from Rabat Some Observations on Ornamental Kufic The Mi-Enlil-Arahtum Survey (Iraq). Seasons 14:30-15:00 Breu, Joaquim Sisa, Sara Iraqi Kurdistan. Ceramic productions in its Middle Bronze Age: Longue Duree of the Pierre de Miroschedji Negar Abdali Oya Pancaroğlu Abbas Al-Hussainy Simonyan Cannavò networks: a view from pithoi Setting Tappeh, Northwest Iran Inscriptions and Ceramic Vessels in 2018-2019 Santaella, Miquel Molist stratigraphic and temporary context Prehistoric South Caucasus Medieval Iran

The Development of Integrated Regional Attempts to Archeological Reading of New Light on Cypriot Imports and Trade in the Angevin Font / Greek Writing: Manuela Hettesheimer, Felix Gird-i Shamlu: A small rural site in the Early 3rd Kamal Badreshany, Michel Economies in the Early Bronze Age 15:00-15:30 Mikheil Abramishvili Genetic Studies of the Aegean Bronze Brigid Clark Levantine Middle and Late Bronze Age Yousef Hassanzadeh The Glazed Bricks from Qalaichi Maria Harvey Fourteenth-century Inscriptions in the Wolter, Simone Mühl Millennium? de Vreeze, Graham Philip Levant: new evidence from “Combed- Age Population (Caucasian Perspective) Transition Salento Ware” jars

From Mamluk Syria and Egypt to the Apennine Peninsula, China, Nigeria, and Kathryn Grossman, Tate Society against the state in prehistoric Cyprus? Egyptian glazed tiles and architectural Late 3rd Millennium pottery from Kunara Beyond: Arabic, Arabicizing, and Other 15:30-16:00 Cécile Verdellet Paulette, Lisa Graham, The politics of village life at Makounta-Voules- Nadia Licitra decoration: materials, techniques and Vera-Simone Schulz (Kurdistan, Iraq) Pseudo-Inscriptions in 13th-15th-century Andrew McCarthy Mersinoudia iconography Italian Painting in their Global Entanglements

The role of flint tools on the manufacture Raphaël Angevin, Christophe A New Concept of Agglomeration in Ninevite 5 Katarzyna Zeman- Of Bulls and Birds. Mycenean and Cypriot Giacoma Petrullo, Francesca of bone objects: an interdisciplinary Discussion on the Near Eastern decorated 16:00-16:30 Julian Edgeworth Reade Nicolle, Juliette Mas Mesopotamia Wiśniewska animal and social symbolism on the move Manclossi approach applied to the Chalcolithic site of bricks Teleilat Ghassul, Southern Levant

6. Culture and Society in the Early Bronze Age Levant Regionalism, Workshop (if 3. Early Bronze Age in Iraqi Kurdistan. Recontextualisation of Archaeological 11. Pseudo-Scripts and Signs Yet to Be Deciphered: Transcultural 14. What happens in the North? New approaches to old problems 15. Prehistoric Cyprus: Economy and Society social boundaries and cultural transmission in the Levantine Early 5. Decorated Bricks of the Achaemenid Period and Their Forerunners present) Data Dynamics of Scripts, Languages, and Artworks across Time and Space Bronze Age

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:00 Closing plenary session (Chair: Ingolf Thuesen)

12 Poster list (in alphabetical order of first author)

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Shaping the Barren Lands with Communal Labour – Reconsidering the Early Cardini Vittoria, D’Orazio Claudia, Giacosa Gabriele, Marchetti Nicolò, Mariani Shaping the Barren Lands with Communal Labour – Reconsidering the Early Abar Aydin 5 Abar Aydin The Iron I administrative complex in area C East at Karkemish 51 Bronze Age Village of al-Maysar, Oman Eleonora, Peker Hasan, Rivoltella Rosa, Rosso Serafino Bronze Age Village of al-Maysar, Oman

Ceramic Technology between the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC. New Insights from Abramishvili Aleksandre Computer-based Reconstruction of Ancient Languages 6 AbramishviliCasadei Eloisa, Aleksandre Volpi Luca Computer-based Reconstruction of Ancient Languages 63 Southern Mesopotamia

Study and virtual re-assemblage of Byzantine Mosaic Pavements from Daraa in StudyHittite andCuisine: virtual fire re-assemblage installations, of cooking Byzantine pottery Mosaic and Pavementsfoodways in from central Daraa Anatolia in Alsaleh Khuzama 3 AlsalehCasucci KhuzamaGiacomo 3 Syria Syriaof Late Bronze Age

Experimenting on 3D GIS: The Case of Sennacherib’s South-West Palace at Alsaleh Khuzama Birds' representations on Byzantine mosaics of Syria 4 AlsalehCavaliere Khuzama Francesca Birds' representations on Byzantine mosaics of Syria 46 Nineveh

The Mekhet (mkt) Project: A New GIS Analysis for the Distribution of Alshaieb Mohamad Moutaz The Roman Mosaics of Triclinia in Antioch 4 AlshaiebCavriani Marzia,Mohamad Ferrari Moutaz Daniela The Roman Mosaics of Triclinia in Antioch 46 Egyptian(izing) Amulets in the ancient Near East

Antinori Guido CESIA project 6 AntinoriChamsia GuidoSadozai, Moriset Sébastien CESIAPost-excavation project treatments of earthen archaeological sites 67

Crops husbandry between Araxes and Kura Rivers : New data on the Asaad Lorna The Syrian Coast Region Mosaics 1 AsaadDecaix Lorna Alexia, Reinder Neef The Syrian Coast Region Mosaics 12 archaeobotany of the Southern Caucasus from Neolithic to Early Bronze Age

Asaad Lorna The human representations on the Syrian mosaics during the Byzantine period 4 AsaadDusting Lorna Amanda, Hazell Guy TheAn Achaemenid human representations stone bowl on from the QalatgaSyrian mosaicsDarband: during anomalous the Byzantine or expected? period 43

Archaeometric Analysis on Dumat al Jandal Pottery Assemblages - A Focus on the Ferrara Silvia, Corazza Michele, Lastilla Lorenzo, Montecchi Barbara, Ravanelli Archaeometric Analysis on Dumat al Jandal Pottery Assemblages - A Focus on the Berardino Simona, Loreto Romolo, Tarquini Ombretta, Colapietro Marcello 8 Berardino Simona, Loreto Romolo, Tarquini Ombretta, Colapietro Marcello INSCRIBE project: invention of scripts and their beginnings 84 Islamic Corpus Roberta, Santamaria Andrea, Tamburini Fabio, Valério Miguel Islamic Corpus

Bertoldi Francesca, Bitadze Lia, Laliashvili Shorena, Giacometti Valentina, Bertoldi Francesca, Bitadze Lia, Laliashvili Shorena, Giacometti Valentina, Results of the missions in Georgia and Armenia carried out by the Laboratory of Results of the missions in Georgia and Armenia carried out by the Laboratory of Cameriere Roberto, Rova Elena, Gagoshidze Iulon, Mkrtchyan Ruzan, Piliposyan 2 CameriereFiras Ali Al Roberto, Haj Ali Rova Elena, Gagoshidze Iulon, Mkrtchyan Ruzan, Piliposyan Mosaic of the Tell Bajer Church, South of Aleppo (Syria) 21 Physical Anthropology (Ca’ Foscari University-Venice, Italy) Physical Anthropology (Ca’ Foscari University-Venice, Italy) Ashot, Simonyan Hasmik, Rasia Piera Allegra Ashot, Simonyan Hasmik, Rasia Piera Allegra

Promoting the Iraqi Cultural Heritage among Younger Generations: The EDUU Bitadze Lia, Tavartkiladze N., Laliashvili Shorena Artificial Cranial Deformation In The Population Of Georgia 2 BitadzeFurlanetto Lia, Mirko, Tavartkiladze Hantoosh N., Khalid, Laliashvili Abdul Shorena Malek Munther Ali Artificial Cranial Deformation In The Population Of Georgia 27 activities in the Local Iraqi Schools

SAFEGUARDING THE NATIONAL HERITAGE: Trilith stone monument Bon Céline, Guarino-Vignon Perle, Lefeuvre Maël, Chimènes Amélie, Pecqueur From population to individual genetics: ancient DNA analyses of Mentesh Tepe BonGarba Céline, Roman, Guarino-Vignon Chlachula Dominik, Perle, MaioranoLefeuvre Maël,Maria ChimènesPia, Štefanisko Amélie, Denis, Pecqueur Al- From population to individual genetics: ancient DNA analyses of Mentesh Tepe 2 relocation from Duqm to The National Museum Oman in Muscat, Sultanate of 27 Laure, Jovenet Elsa, Lyonnet Bertille Neolithic humans (Azerbaijan) Laure,Ghafri JovenetWaleed Elsa, Lyonnet Bertille Neolithic humans (Azerbaijan) Oman

Textile production in central Anatolia between the II and the I millennium BC. TextileNo one productionused to fill inKubaba's central granary:Anatolia Publicbetween storage the II strategiesand the I atmillennium Karkemish BC. after Bonacchi Alice 3 BonacchiGiacosa Gabriele, Alice D'Orazio Claudia 31 Between continuity and innovation Betweenthe fall of continuity the Hittite and Empire innovation

Early Medieval Sword from Altai: Comprehensive Analysis, Middle Eastern and Briffa Josef Mario From Sodom to Ghassul. The Legacy of the Ghassul excavation at 90 6 BriffaGorbunov Josef Vadim, Mario Tishkin A. Alexey, Seregin N. Nikolay From Sodom to Ghassul. The Legacy of the Ghassul excavation at 90 68 Other Analogies

Brodbeck-Jucker Sabina Udabno and the neighbouring regions analysed on the basis of pottery 3 Brodbeck-JuckerGordon Sandra Sabina UdabnoMoney Talks. and the What neighbouring the city coins regions reveal analysed about Romanon the basis Pella of pottery 3

Cacozza Iolanda Another plaster on the wall: the evidences of Uşaklı Höyük, a preliminary analysis 3 CacozzaGuarino IolandaGiuseppe, Alaimo Daniele, Valeri Marco AnotherMagnetometry plaster in on the the Outer wall: Townthe evidences of Karkemish: of Uşaklı new Höyük, discoveries a preliminary analysis 31

Middle Iron Age ceramic production inside the boundary of the Kızılırmak. The Handziuk Natalia, Rhodes Stephen, Gibbon Elizabeth, Ashour Nour, Batiuk Middle Iron Age ceramic production inside the boundary of the Kızılırmak. The Calderone Sabina 3 Calderone Sabina Radial Sampling: A new approach to the micro remains of the Southern Caucuses 32 pottery inventory of Ușaklı Höyük Stephen, Jalabadze Mindia pottery inventory of Ușaklı Höyük

The Lower Town of Nineveh. The Occupational Sequence from the 2019 and The Lower3D Documentation Town of Nineveh. Project The of EndangeredOccupational Cultural Sequence Heritage: from the Ancient 2019 andVillages Campeggi Michael 1 CampeggiJammo Sari, Michael Tsuneki Akira, Watanabe Nobuya 17 2020 Iraqi-Italian Excavations in Area A 2020of Northern Iraqi-Italian Syria Excavations in Area A

The transition between the Achaemenid and the Hellenistic period at The transition between the Achaemenid and the Hellenistic period at Cardini Vittoria, Gallerani Valentina 1 CardiniJbaee Maher, Vittoria, Kürtösi Gallerani Brigitta Valentina Mária Mosaic construction techniques in Philippopolis (Shahba) in Syria 13 Karkemish/Europos Karkemish/Europos

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Shaping the Barren Lands with Communal Labour – Reconsidering the Early ShapingAiming High:the Barren An A.I. Lands Detection with Communal Experiment Labour of Archaeological – Reconsidering Sites the in Earlythe Iraqi KinzelAbar Aydin Moritz, Thuesen Mette, Hermansen Bo Dahl, Godtfredsen Konrad Nuka Neolithic Storytelling or how to tell a story about the Neolithic 56 AbarRoccetti Aydin Marco, Casini Luca, Delnevo Giovanni, Marchetti Nicolò, Orrù Valentina 56 Bronze Age Village of al-Maysar, Oman BronzeFloodplain Age Village of al-Maysar, Oman

Aesthetics of stucco and tiles. Archaeometric and Art Historical Perspectives on Creating the King: Assyrian-Egyptian-Lydian networks in seventh-century BC AbramishviliKorn Lorenz, AleksandreGrbanovic Ana Marija, Iman Aghajani Computer-based Reconstruction of Ancient Languages 68 AbramishviliRogers John Aleksandre Computer-based Reconstruction of Ancient Languages 64 Architectural Decoration in Iran, 11th-14th centuries rulership ideology

StudyThe New and Didactic virtual re-assemblage Room in the Iraq of Byzantine Museum ofMosaic Baghdad. Pavements Developing from DaraaStrategies in StudyThe interior and virtual painted re-assemblage pottery of Tepe of Byzantine Sohz - An Mosaic analysis Pavements of design from configuration Daraa in AlsalehLippolis Khuzama Carlo, Furlanetto Mirko, Mahmoud Bahaa N. 37 AlsalehRuschel KhuzamaFelicitas 3 Syriaof Communicating the Past among Younger Generations Syriaand their implications for early modes of interaction

The Hyksos Enigma – investigating provenance and migration using dental Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW): Large-Scale Spatial Analysis of the AlsalehMaaranen Khuzama Nina, Schutkowski Holger, Zakrzewski Sonia Birds' representations on Byzantine mosaics of Syria 42 AlsalehRyberg SmidtKhuzama Gustav, Nett Seraina, Rattenborg Rune Birds' representations on Byzantine mosaics of Syria 46 nonmetric traits Cuneiform Corpus (c. 3400 BCE to 100 CE)

Settlement patterns and chronology at the edge of Mesopotamia: The Land of Kufa An Interdisciplinary Approach to Timber Resources in the ANE and their Impact AlshaiebManer Çiğdem, Mohamad Al-Lami Moutaz Alaa Hussein, Zaina Federico The Roman Mosaics of Triclinia in Antioch 41 AlshaiebSchlegel ValeryMohamad J. Moutaz The Roman Mosaics of Triclinia in Antioch 42 survey project on Royal Architecture in the First Millennium BC

WALADU Pilot Summer School. Get Together of European and Iraqi AntinoriManer Çiğdem, Guido Sarsilmaz Burcu, Al-Hamdany Hayder CESIA project 67 AntinoriTafazzoli Guido Ailar CESIABronze axesproject with figurative decorations from Iran 63 Archaeology Students.

The Impact of the New WALADU Academic Courses in Archaeology in Iraq: Inside the Pool of Gibeon. 3D model reconstruction and some observations about AsaadMarchetti Lorna Nicolò, Zaina Federico, Di Tommaso Emmanuel, Proserpio Licia The Syrian Coast Region Mosaics 17 AsaadTamburrini Lorna Maria The Syrian Coast Region Mosaics 1 Results and Challenges finds

Communicating the Past: The Opening of the 'King Ghazi Landscape Museum' in AsaadMarchetti Lorna Nicolò, Orrù Valentina, Roberto Giulia, Scazzosi Giulia, Zaina Federico The human representations on the Syrian mosaics during the Byzantine period 47 AsaadTaranto Lorna Sergio ThePot baking:human representationsrevisiting an ancient on the analogy Syrian mosaics during the Byzantine period 43 Southern Iraq

The Late Bronze Age-Iron Age transition in the soft-stone vessels assemblage: a Archaeometric Analysis on Dumat al Jandal Pottery Assemblages - A Focus on the Archaeometric Analysis on Dumat al Jandal Pottery Assemblages - A Focus on the BerardinoMarchetti Nicolò,Simona, Luglio Loreto Giampaolo, Romolo, Tarquini Valeri MarcoOmbretta, Colapietro Marcello UAV for Ninawa: The 2019 Topographic Survey of Nineveh 81 BerardinoTursi Giampiero, Simona, Genchi Loreto Francesco Romolo, Tarquini Ombretta, Colapietro Marcello possible marker of the early use of the Long-Chambered Grave 1 (LCG-1) at Daba 83 Islamic Corpus Islamic Corpus al Bayah (Oman)

Bertoldi Francesca, Bitadze Lia, Laliashvili Shorena, Giacometti Valentina, Bertoldi Francesca, Bitadze Lia, Laliashvili Shorena, Giacometti Valentina, ResultsLes problématiques of the missions de travauxin Georgia de restaurationand Armenia dans carried les sites out byarchéologiques the Laboratory en of ResultsMiddle ofUruk the villagemissions economy in Georgia in the and Southern Armenia Kurdistan carried out (Iraq): by the The Laboratory faunal of CameriereMohammed Roberto, Ali Lilas Rova Elena, Gagoshidze Iulon, Mkrtchyan Ruzan, Piliposyan 27 CameriereVila Emmanuelle Roberto, Rova Elena, Gagoshidze Iulon, Mkrtchyan Ruzan, Piliposyan 2 Physicalbrique crue Anthropology en Syrie Histoire, (Ca’ Foscari acteurs, University-Venice, enjeux Italy) Physicalanalysis ofAnthropology Girdi Qala (Qara (Ca’ FoscariDagh Project) University-Venice, Italy) Ashot, Simonyan Hasmik, Rasia Piera Allegra Ashot, Simonyan Hasmik, Rasia Piera Allegra

Vitolo Priscilla, Gasparyan Boris, Dan Roberto, Petrosyan Artur, Zecchi Chiara, BitadzeMontero Lia, Fenollós Tavartkiladze Juan Luis, N., Caramelo Laliashvili Francisco, Shorena Gómez José G., Yasin Jehad ArtificialTell el-Far'a Cranial (Palestine): Deformation a new InIron The IIA Population house Of Georgia 21 Bitadze Lia, Tavartkiladze N., Laliashvili Shorena ArtificialAn Urartian Cranial grave Deformation in Aghavnadzor, In The Vayots Population Dzor, OfArmenia Georgia 23 Bonfanti Annarita Stefania

Formation of the Tien Shan North Road, the Silk Road: A Preliminary Report on Bon Céline, Guarino-Vignon Perle, Lefeuvre Maël, Chimènes Amélie, Pecqueur From population to individual genetics: ancient DNA analyses of Mentesh Tepe Bon Céline, Guarino-Vignon Perle, Lefeuvre Maël, Chimènes Amélie, Pecqueur From population to individual genetics: ancient DNA analyses of Mentesh Tepe Monticolo Antonio, Anguissola Anna, Costa Silvana New research in the Northern necropolis of Hierapolis, Phrygia (Turkey) 21 Yamafuji Masatoshi, Amanbaeva Bakit, Bazilov Daniyar the First and Second Survey Seasons of the Chuy Valley Archaeological Project 21 Laure, Jovenet Elsa, Lyonnet Bertille Neolithic humans (Azerbaijan) Laure, Jovenet Elsa, Lyonnet Bertille Neolithic humans (Azerbaijan) (CVAP), Northern Kyrgyz

Textile production in central Anatolia between the II and the I millennium BC. TextileHeritage production Buildings in centralKufa: Documenting Anatolia between and Preservingthe II and thean EndangeredI millennium Ancient BC. BonacchiMoussa Dia Alice Al-Ashik Qanat. A Roman Canal Between Salamiyah and Apamea 3 BonacchiZaina Federico, Alice Maner Çiğdem, Djebil Ali Naji 37 Between continuity and innovation BetweenCity continuity and innovation

BriffaMustafa Josef Mohamad Mario FromTracing Sodom Ritual, to BurialGhassul. practices The Legacy in Pre-Pottery of the Ghassul Neolithic excavation southern at Levant 90 64 Briffa Josef Mario From Sodom to Ghassul. The Legacy of the Ghassul excavation at 90 6

Brodbeck-JuckerNasser Abdallah Sabina UdabnoThe ancient and romanthe neighbouring cemeteries regionsin the city analysed of Serrin on theEast basis Aleppo of pottery (Syria) 31 Brodbeck-Jucker Sabina Udabno and the neighbouring regions analysed on the basis of pottery 3

The development of Urartian military architecture during the Iron Age (IX-VII CacozzaNicotera IolandaFederica Another plaster on the wall: the evidences of Uşaklı Höyük, a preliminary analysis 3 Cacozza Iolanda Another plaster on the wall: the evidences of Uşaklı Höyük, a preliminary analysis 3 century B.C.): the case-study of Iran

Petrosyan Artur, Dan Roberto, Vitolo Priscilla, Gasparyan Boris, Cesaretti Andrea, MiddleKaghsi-2 Iron (KSP046), Age ceramic Meghradzor-1 production (KSP059) inside the and boundary Berdi Glukhof the (KSP061):Kızılırmak. Three The Middle Iron Age ceramic production inside the boundary of the Kızılırmak. The Calderone Sabina 31 Calderone Sabina 3 Gasparro Onofrio potteryrecently inventory discovered of Kura-Araxes Ușaklı Höyük sites in the Kotayk region, Armenia pottery inventory of Ușaklı Höyük

The LowerBronze TownAge Stratigraphic of Nineveh. SequenceThe Occupational of the AA Sequence Sounding from on the 2019Acropolis and of The Lower Town of Nineveh. The Occupational Sequence from the 2019 and CampeggiPizzimenti MichaelSara 1 Campeggi Michael 1 2020Karkemish Iraqi-Italian Excavations in Area A 2020 Iraqi-Italian Excavations in Area A

The transitionJemdet Nasr between Period the in AchaemenidCentral Mesopotamia: and the Hellenistic Review of period the Archaeological at The transition between the Achaemenid and the Hellenistic period at CardiniQuaggio Vittoria, Sara Gallerani Valentina 13 Cardini Vittoria, Gallerani Valentina 1 Karkemish/EuroposEvidence in a Regional Perspective Karkemish/Europos

Roberto Giulia, Mariani Eleonora Digging in the excavation records: the case of Woolley’s 1913 Yunus notebook 1

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