Outputs (37)

The Invisible Dead Project: A Methodology for "Coping" with the Dead (2016)
Book Chapter
Bradbury, J., & Philip, G. (2017). The Invisible Dead Project: A Methodology for "Coping" with the Dead. In C. Felli (Ed.), How to cope with death : mourning and funerary practices in the Ancient Near East. Edizioni ETS

Despite the multitude of burial, cremation and disposal options now available in modern society, current western attitudes to death often bring with them expectations of ‘normality’. There is a general belief that, despite the distances of time and s... Read More about The Invisible Dead Project: A Methodology for "Coping" with the Dead.

Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Islamic Period: an instance of punctuated equilibrium (2016)
Book Chapter
Philip, G., & Bradbury, J. (2016). Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Islamic Period: an instance of punctuated equilibrium. In D. Parayre (Ed.), Le fleuve rebelle. Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d'Elba à l'époque médiévale (377-395). Presses de l'Ifpo. https://doi.org/10.4000/syria.4966

This paper seeks to outline the main developments in settlement organization in the Orontes Valley around the modern city of Homs from the Neolithic through to the Islamic period. Data drawn from ten seasons of fieldwork undertaken by the project Set... Read More about Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Islamic Period: an instance of punctuated equilibrium.

Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation (2016)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Hunt, H., Snape-Kennedy, L., & Wilkinson, T. (2016). Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation. PLoS ONE, 11(3), Article e0152563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152563

Over the last 8000 years the Fertile Crescent of the Near East has seen the emergence of urban agglomerations, small scale polities and large territorial empires, all of which had profound effects on settlement patterns. Computational approaches, inc... Read More about Long term population, city size and climate trends in the Fertile Crescent: a first approximation.

The mortuary facilities and their contents (2015)
Book Chapter
Peltenburg, E., Bolger, D., Campbell, S., Jackson, A., Lunt, D., Parras, Z., …Watt, M. (2015). The mortuary facilities and their contents. In E. Peltenburg (Ed.), Tell Jerablus Tahtani, Syria I: Mortuary Practices at an Early Bronze Age Fort on the Euphrates River (37-97). Council for British Research in the Levant

Metalwork from mortuary contexts at Jerablus (2015)
Book Chapter
CBRL Monographs 17 (127-142). Council for British Research in the Levant

Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, J., Brooks, N., Banning Edward, B., Bar-Matthews, M., Campbell, S., Clare, L., …Zerboni, A. (2016). Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 136, 96-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.003

This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th... Read More about Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence.

Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent (2015)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Wilkinson, K., Buylaert, J., Murray, A., Thompson, W., & Wilkinson, T. (2017). Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent. Quaternary International, 437(Part B), 60-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.06.026

Archaeological data tend to be gathered at the local level: human agency also operates at this scale. By combining data from multiple surveys conducted within a larger area, it is possible to use local datasets to obtain a perspective on regional tre... Read More about Regional Power and Local Ecologies: Accumulated Population Trends and Human Impacts in the Northern Fertile Crescent.

Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets (2015)
Journal Article
Bradbury, J., Davies, D., Jay, M., Philip, G., Roberts, C., & Scarre, C. (2016). Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(2), 561-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9251-1

There can be few “bigger” questions than the nature and development of human experience and self-awareness and few better ways to study it than through the changing treatment of the dead over time. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, the ‘Invisi... Read More about Making the Dead Visible: Problems and solutions for "big" picture approaches to the past, and dealing with large "mortuary" datasets.

Settlement in the upper Orontes Valley: a Preliminary Statement (2014)
Book Chapter
Philip, G., & Newson, P. (2014). Settlement in the upper Orontes Valley: a Preliminary Statement. In K. Bartl, & M. al-Maqdissi (Eds.), New Prospecting in the Orontes Region. First Results of Archaeological Fieldwork (33-39). Verlag Marie Leidorf

Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Philip, G., Bradbury, J., Dunford, R., Donoghue, D., Galiatsatos, N., …Smith, S. (2014). Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC. Journal of World Prehistory, 27(1), 43-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-014-9072-2

This paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during the Late Chalcolithic period, was within a dense pattern of rural s... Read More about Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC.