Recent studies in the field of sensory archaeology – that encompasses the meaning and impact of senses in the past and in the comprehension of past phenomena – developed new theories and methods in the archaeological research starting from not only visible and tangible data but also envisioning no longer existing (visible, tangible and audible) information from the past.
Review of F. Baffi, R. Fiorentino and L. Peyronel (eds), Tell Tuqan Excavations and Regional Perspectives. Cultural Developments in Inner Syria from the Early Bronze Age to the Persian/Hellenistic Period. Proceedings of the International Conference May 15th–17th 2013 – Lecce. Università del Salento. Dipartimento di Beni culturali – Collana del Dipartimento 21. Congedo Editore, Galatina, Italy, 2014.
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Denmark in Copenhagen legally hosts a collection of around 5000 artefacts dating from Period J, which were left largely unpublished after Ingholt’s and Fugmann’s preliminary studies between the 1930s and the 1950s.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 paper reappraises the question of the Early-Middle Bronze transition in Syira taking the view from Ebla, on the basis of the discoveries of the 2004-2009 exacavations.
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