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 http://www.12icaane.unibo.it/ PARTNERS TECHNICAL PARTNERS SPONSORS ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS 3 12TH ICAANE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 12TH ICAANE UNIBO EXECUTIVE TEAM 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) Room A Room B Room C Room D Room E Room F Room G 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