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A re-examination of the photographic documentation of the EB IV pottery collected from the excavations at Ebla has allowed us to identify a group of sherds dating from late Early Bronze IVB that belong to the tradition of “grey wares” produced between Tell Mishrifeh/Qaṭna, Tell Shayrat and Tell Nebi Mend, and distributed primarily to Central and Southern Syria, and to the Painted Simple Ware of the central Syrian steppe. This is the first time that pottery produced in these areas is identified within an EB IVB assemblage of the Ebla region.

This brief paper presents the preliminary results of the study on the ceramics collected during the excavation campaign carried out in 2012 within the framework of the joint Iranian-Italian Archaeological Mission at Istakhr. The pottery finds relate to a time span ranging from the 9th to possibly the 13th century, corresponding to the occupation phases identified within the stratigraphy

The article reports on the results of portable Raman spectroscopy on a group of EB IV pottery sherds from Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan.

80 years after their completion, the Danish excavations at Hama (1931–1938) are still crucial for the understanding of the whole Early Bronze Age in Western Syria (ca. 3000–2000 BC), from an archaeological point of view. The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen legally hosts a collection of around 5000 artefacts dating from Period J, which were left largely unpublished after Ingholt’s and Fugmann’s preliminary studies between the 1930s and the 1950s.

The Early Bronze IVB (EB IVB, c. 2300-2000 BC) pottery horizon of Western Inland Syria has been object of intense study for decades, and it is well known, being attested at a large number of sites spanning east-west from the Orontes Valley to the Jabbul. However, until less than a decade ago, internal periodization of this period was possible only by referring to Hama, the only site that had provided a long EB IVB stratigraphic and ceramic sequences excavated in the 1930s.

Il paper presenta i risultati degli scavi del Barqa Landscape Project, diretto da Russell Adams, a Khirbat Hamra Ifdan nel 2013 e discute l'evidenza di occupazione del sito nel Bronzo Antico II-III in relazione alle fasi e allo sviluppo dell'estrazione e della metallurgia del rame in questa regione della Giordania nelle fasi urbane del Bronzo Antico.

Aim of this paper is to investigate external relations of the site of Arslantepe during the first half of the 4th millennium BCE. This corresponds to what we call period VII at Arslantepe, or Late Chalcolithic 3 and 4 in the chronological sequence of Greater Mesopotamia (Rothman ed. 2001). The Arslantepe stratigraphy is dated by more than 130 radiocarbon analyses and period VII falls between 3900 and 3400 BCE (Di Nocera 2000; Vignola et al. 2017, 2018).

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the Early Neolithic pottery production in the
Marche region, Italy (VI mill. BC). The main goal of this research is to expand the knowledge of pottery manufacturing
processes associated to the typical Central Adriatic Impressed Ware, at present poorly understood.
All sites under analysis are located in the piedmont hills of the Apennine Mountains, except one which is on
the coast. This study aims to highlight synchronic and diachronic variability in pottery technology, to identify

A tradition of pottery production is well-attested in northern and central Italy during the Middle and Recent
Bronze Ages (17–12th century BCE). In order to characterise that pottery production, this paper presents a synthesis
of available archaeometrical data. Petrographic, mineralogical (X-ray powder diffraction; XRPD) and
chemical analyses (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; XRF) were compiled from Emilia, Romagna, southern Veneto
and northern Tuscany. Four hundred vessels from 21 sites were analysed, of which 147 are presented here for

This book presents the results of the archaeological activities and specialistic studies carried out at the site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Province of Dhi Qar, southern Iraq) by the Iraqi-Italian joint mission of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and of Sapienza, led by F. D’Agostino and L. Romano (Dipartimento – Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali). In the volume the accomplishments of the first seven campaigns (2011-2016) are introduced together with an assessment of the palaeo-environment and landscape surrounding the site.