Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria: the implications for the development of “sub-optimal” zones in the Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age

Philip, G; Bradbury, J

doi:10.1179/175638010x12797237885659

All Outputs (4)

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 World Beyond Tells: Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria (2011)
Book Chapter
Bradbury, J., & Philip, G. (2011). The World Beyond Tells: Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria. In T. Steimer-Herbert (Ed.), Pierres levées, stèles anthropomorpheset dolmens. = Standing stones, anthropomorphic stelae and dolmens (169-180). Archaeopress

The Archaeology of the Homs Basalt, Syria: the main site types (2011)
Journal Article
Philip, G., Bradbury, J., & Jabbur, F. (2011). The Archaeology of the Homs Basalt, Syria: the main site types

Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria: the implications for the development of “sub-optimal” zones in the Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (2010)
Journal Article
Philip, G., & Bradbury, J. (2010). Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria: the implications for the development of “sub-optimal” zones in the Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age. Levant, 42(2), 136-169. https://doi.org/10.1179/175638010x12797237885659

The article presents new evidence for activity of 4th and 3rd millennium BC date, from the basaltic landscape west of the Orontes River, near modern Homs, which provides an indication of the nature and extent of human activity at this time outside th... Read More about Pre-classical activity in the basalt landscape of the Homs region, Syria: the implications for the development of “sub-optimal” zones in the Levant during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age.