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Recensione del volume a cura di Öhnan Tunca e Abd el-Massih, con la collaborazione di Sophie Léon, Chagar Bazar (Syrie)
IV. Les tombes ordinaires de l’âge du Bronze ancien et moyen des chantiers D–F–H–I (1999–2011): Étude archéologique. Publications de la Mission Archéologique de l’Université de Liège en Syrie. Peeters, Louvain – Paris – Bristol, CT, 2018.

The southern Levantine tradition of cult buildings from Early Bronze I to Early Bronze III is represented
mainly by simple broad-room temples with a central row of pillar bases, a layout derived directly from the
local Chalcolithic traditions. However, at Tell el-Mutesellim/Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley, and Khirbet
ez-Zeraqon in the northern Transjordanian plateau, two different types of temples were discovered, which
are often conflated in the category of broad-room temples in antis. In contrast, we argue that they belong to

In the Piana Campana (Southern Italy), the repeated and sometimes devastating volcanic activities of the Somma-Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, spread over a wide area and over centuries, led archaeologists to the recovery of detailed data about the past environment and human occupation during the Late Holocene. Settlements, burials, landscape and agrarian infrastructures (fields, tracks, wells, etc.) show an intense and continuous human presence since at least late Neolithic times (ca. 6.2 ka cal BP) also confirmed in the pollen diagrams.

The authors discuss corss-cultural interactions across the Adriatic during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC. In particular the spread of Cetina-type pottery in the western Balkans and southern Italy is examined. Moreover, the goals and preliminary results of two connected interational reserach projects focussing on the 'Cetina phenomenon'.

During the 6th - 4th millennia BC contacts between the Aegean and southern Italy already took place, yet, being mostly testified by broad similarities in the material culture, these still remain difficult to define.

The possible representation of steles on one seal from the Royal Palace G of EB IVA Ebla is being considered in this contribution. By comparison with the written evidence, an attempt will be made at understanding how successful steles were made, where they were placed, and what their meaning for the visual image of kingship in the culture of the mature Early Syrian Ebla was

The archaeological evidence from the Levant, Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean basin documents the appearance of specialized drinking sets in those regions from around the mid-3rd millennium BC, including vessels for serving (pitchers, jugs and the so-called teapots) and drinking liquids (mugs, handled cups, goblets, beakers and cups), most likely alcoholic beverages (beer or wine), suggestive of regional independent productions elaborated from different prototypes that may document diverse drinking behaviours adopted at various places.

This paper presents a preliminary overview of the outstanding evidence of chert mining and specialised lithic workshops found on the southern slopes of the Jebel Zawa, in the Dohuk Governorate, northern Iraqi Kurdistan. Technical features observed on lithic materials - such as cores and waste products – led to the identification of this mining complex as the source of raw materials used to produce the large standardised blades known in the literature as ‘Canaanean’.

Cooking practices are analyzed throughout the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age occupation at the site of Arslantepe (Malatya), in Eastern Anatolia, by investigating 347 whole cooking pots and a series of in situ but fragmented ones. These vessels are mostly found within domestic or public buildings and are thus considered to be primary indicators of the cooking practices of their inhabitants.