All Outputs (24)

Hubs and upstarts: pathways to urbanism in the northern Fertile Crescent (2015)
Journal Article
Lawrence, D., & Wilkinson, T. (2015). Hubs and upstarts: pathways to urbanism in the northern Fertile Crescent. Antiquity, 89(344), 328-344. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2014.44

The origins of urbanism are a controversial subject, with neo-evolutionary progress through graduated stages of ‘civilisation’ still having significant influence despite criticism, while others in the field prefer more diverse, regionally based traje... Read More about Hubs and upstarts: pathways to urbanism in the northern Fertile Crescent.

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.

The Landscapes of the Gorgān Wall. (2013)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, T. J., Rekavandi, H. O., Hopper, K., Priestman, S., Roustaei, K., & Galiatsatos, N. (2013). The Landscapes of the Gorgān Wall. In H. O. W. Rekavandi, J. S. Tony J. Nokandeh, & W. Eberhard (Eds.), Persia's Imperial Power in Late Antiquity: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Frontier Landscapes of Sasanian Iran (24-132). Oxbow Books

Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes: How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations (2013)
Book
Wilkinson, T., Gibson, M., & Widell, M. (Eds.). (2013). Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes: How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations. Archaeopress

This volume demonstrates how models can contribute to an understanding of the development of ancient Mesopotamian settlement and landscape. The models are intended to show that early settlements co-evolved in an intimate relationship with their physi... Read More about Models of Mesopotamian Landscapes: How small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations.

Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Settlement and Mobility in the Middle Euphrates: A Reassessment. (2012)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T. J., Galiatsatos, N., Lawrence, D., Ricci, A., Dunford, R., & Philip, G. (2012). Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Settlement and Mobility in the Middle Euphrates: A Reassessment. Levant, 44(2), 139-185. https://doi.org/10.1179/0075891412z.0000000007

Hydraulic landscapes and imperial power in the Near East. (2010)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., & J *Rayne, L. (2010). Hydraulic landscapes and imperial power in the Near East. Water History, 2(2), 115-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-010-0024-1

The Geoarchaeology of Route Systems in Northern Syria (2010)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., French, C., Ur, J., & Semple, M. (2010). The Geoarchaeology of Route Systems in Northern Syria. Geoarchaeology, 25(6), 745-771. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20331

Linear valleys, termed hollow ways, form a distinctive feature of the North Syrian Bronze Age landscape, but few have been described in detail or excavated. This paper examines the geoarchaeology of hollow way route systems in northern Syria at three... Read More about The Geoarchaeology of Route Systems in Northern Syria.

Environment and Long-Term Population Trends in Southwest Arabia (2010)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, T. (2010). Environment and Long-Term Population Trends in Southwest Arabia. In M. Petraglia, & J. Rose (Eds.), The evolution of human populations in Arabia (51-66). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2719-1_4

The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Galiatsatos, N., Wilkinson, T., Donoghue, D., & Philip, G. (2009, March). The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery. Presented at CAA 2009 : Making history interactive., Williamsburg, Virginia, USA

The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP) is analyzing the rise and decline of Bronze Age urban settlements and associated political and economic structures in the ancient Near East between ca. 3500 and 1200 BC. The Near East is a key area for urban develop... Read More about The Fragile Crescent Project (FCP): Analysis of Settlement Landscapes Using Satellite Imagery.

An Imperial frontier of the Sasanian Empire: further fieldwork at the great wall of Gorgan (2007)
Journal Article
Omrani-Rekavandi, H., Sauer, E., Wilkinson, T., Tamak, E., Ainslie, R., Mahmoudi, M., …Hoffman, B. (2007). An Imperial frontier of the Sasanian Empire: further fieldwork at the great wall of Gorgan. Iran, 45, 95-136

The 2006 season has yielded significant new insights into the Great Wall of Gorgan's relation to landscape features and settlement, notably the division of the associated complex water supply system into sectors. The westernmost part of the wall is b... Read More about An Imperial frontier of the Sasanian Empire: further fieldwork at the great wall of Gorgan.

Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish: landscape surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006 (2007)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Peltenburg, E., McCarthy, A., Wilkinson, E., & Brown, M. (2007). Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish: landscape surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006. Levant, 39, 213-247

The first season of survey around the site of tell Jerablus Tahtani, conducted in March and April 2006, demonstrated the existence of occupation from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period. Tell Jerablus Tahtani was fringed to the west by a lower... Read More about Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish: landscape surveys in the area of Jerablus Tahtani, 2006.

Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment: Modeling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia (2007)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Christiansen, J., Ur, J., Widell, M., & Altaweel, M. (2007). Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment: Modeling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia. American Anthropologist, 109(1), 52-68. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2007.109.1.52

Here agent-based models are employed to explore the behavior of small communities and their associated economic systems within an area of climatically marginal environment in northern Syria and Iraq. The examples, drawn from late prehistoric and Bron... Read More about Urbanization within a Dynamic Environment: Modeling Bronze Age Communities in Upper Mesopotamia.

Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia (2006)
Journal Article
Hritz, C., & Wilkinson, T. (2006). Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia. Antiquity, 80(308), 415-424. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00093728

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is currently producing a digital elevation model of most of the world's surface. Here the authors assess its value in mapping and sequencing the network of water channels that provided the arterial system f... Read More about Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia.

The early to mid-Holocene moist period in Arabia: some recent evidence from lacustrine sequences in eastern and south-western Arabia (2006)
Journal Article
Parker, A., Davies, C., & Wilkinson, T. (2006). The early to mid-Holocene moist period in Arabia: some recent evidence from lacustrine sequences in eastern and south-western Arabia. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 36, 243-255

Linear Barriers of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe (2006)
Journal Article
Nokandeh, J., Sauer, E. W., Omrani, R. H., Wilkinson, T., Abbasi, G. A., Schwenninger, J., …Gale, R. (2006). Linear Barriers of Northern Iran: The Great Wall of Gorgan and the Wall of Tammishe. Iran, 44, 121-173

Landscape and Settlement in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (2005)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Wilkinson, E., Ur, J., & Altaweel, M. (2005). Landscape and Settlement in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 340, 23-56

Soil erosion and valley fills in the Yemen highlands and southern Turkey: Integrating settlement, geoarchaeology, and climate change (2005)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T. (2005). Soil erosion and valley fills in the Yemen highlands and southern Turkey: Integrating settlement, geoarchaeology, and climate change. Geoarchaeology, 20(2), 169-192. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.20042

Geoarchaeological studies of valley-fill sequences frequently do not employ the full range of human activities to explain the causes of deposition. This paper shows how records of environmental change from ocean cores and relict lakes can be integrat... Read More about Soil erosion and valley fills in the Yemen highlands and southern Turkey: Integrating settlement, geoarchaeology, and climate change.

The other side of Sheba: early towns in the highlands of Yemen (2005)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T. (2005). The other side of Sheba: early towns in the highlands of Yemen. Bibliotheca orientalis (Printed), 62(1-2), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.2143/bior.62.1.2011714

In contrast to the arid interior of Arabia, the Yemen highlands are remarkably well watered and verdant. Despite these advantages, until the 1990s this vast area of mountains and intermontane basins had largely escaped the attention of archaeologists... Read More about The other side of Sheba: early towns in the highlands of Yemen.

On the margin of the Euphrates : settlement and land use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the upper Lake Assad area, Syria (2004)
Book
Wilkinson, T., Miller, N., Reichel, C., & Whitcomb, D. (2004). On the margin of the Euphrates : settlement and land use at Tell es-Sweyhat and in the upper Lake Assad area, Syria. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Human-environment interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, southwest Iran. Recent investigations (2004)
Journal Article
Alizadeh, A., Kouchoukos, N., Wilkinson, T., Bauer, A., & Mashkour, M. (2004). Human-environment interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, southwest Iran. Recent investigations. Paléorient (En ligne), 30(1), 69-88. https://doi.org/10.3406/paleo.2004.4773

Evidence from archaeological excavation, intensive surface survey, geoarchaeological investigations, and remote sensing conducted in fall 2002 establishes parameters for the long-term history of human-environment interaction on the eastern margins of... Read More about Human-environment interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, southwest Iran. Recent investigations.