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Professor Graham Philip's Outputs (38)

Sasanian landscapes of the Gorgan Plain: new insights from remote sensing and field survey (2022)
Book Chapter
Hopper, K., Omrani Rekavandi, H., Ricci, A., Welton, L., Lawrence, D., & Philip, G. (2022). Sasanian landscapes of the Gorgan Plain: new insights from remote sensing and field survey. In E. Sauer, J. Nokandeh, & H. Omrani Rekavandi (Eds.), Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity's Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran: A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the University of E. Oxbow Books

s h i r ī n: What Place for Archaeology and Archaeologists during Wartime? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Braemer, F., Kühne, H., Jamieson, A., & Philip, G. (2022, December). s h i r ī n: What Place for Archaeology and Archaeologists during Wartime?. Presented at Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of Syria . Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, Vienna

s h i r ī n is an initiative by the global community of scholars active in the fields of archaeology, art and history of the Ancient Near East. It brings together a significant proportion of the international research groups that were working in Syri... Read More about s h i r ī n: What Place for Archaeology and Archaeologists during Wartime?.

The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age (2021)
Journal Article
Badreshany, K., Sowada, K., Ownby, M., Jean, M., De Vreeze, M., McClymont, A., & Philip, G. (2022). The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, Article 103309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103309

A recent petrographic study of ceramic jars from Giza imported into Egypt during the 4th Dynasty of the Pyramid Age (c. 2613–2494 BC) identified the original production zone as the Lebanese coast generally between Beirut and Tripoli, including the re... Read More about The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age.

Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis (2021)
Book Chapter
Fobbe, S., Navrouzov, N., Hopper, K., Khudida Burjus, A., Philip, G., Nawaf, M. G., …Mishko, F. (2021). Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis. In J. Rehman, A. Shahid, & S. Foster (Eds.), The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (111-114). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466180_006

Discussions of the 2014 genocide committed by the Islámic Státe ágáinst the E zidî s (álso known ás 'Yázidis' or 'Yezidis') háve generálly focused on murder, slávery ánd sexuál exploitátion. In this páper we ánályze the destruction of E zidî tángible... Read More about Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis.

Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series (2021)
Journal Article
Garcia-Molsosa, A., Orengo, H. A., Lawrence, D., Philip, G., Hopper, K., & Petrie, C. (2021). Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series. Archaeological Prospection, 28(2), 187-199. https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1807

Historical maps present a unique depiction of past landscapes, providing evidence for a wide range of information such as settlement distribution, past land use, natural resources, transport networks, toponymy and other natural and cultural data with... Read More about Potential of deep learning segmentation for the extraction of archaeological features from historical map series.

New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson (2020)
Book
Lawrence, D., Altaweel, M., & Philip, G. (Eds.). (2020). New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson. Archaeopress

New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East is a collection of papers produced in honour of Tony James Wilkinson, who was Professor of Archaeology at Durham University from 2006 until his death in 2014. Though commemorati... Read More about New Agendas in Remote Sensing and Landscape Archaeology in the Near East: Studies in Honour of Tony J. Wilkinson.

Conclusion (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, D., Philip, G., & Altaweel, M. (2020). Conclusion. In D. Lawrence, M. Altaweel, & G. Philip (Eds.), New agendas in remote sensing and landscape archaeology in the Near East : studies in honour of Tony J. Wilkinson (321-327). Archaeopress

Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches (2020)
Journal Article
Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches. Levant, 52(1-2), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2020.1786270

By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we... Read More about Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches.

Landscape investigations in the Dariali Pass, Georgia (2020)
Book Chapter
Hopper, K., Lawrence, D., Snape-Kennedy, L., Chologauri, L., Priestman, S., Pitskelauri, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Landscape investigations in the Dariali Pass, Georgia. In E. Sauer, L. Chologauri, A. Gabunia, K. Hopper, D. Lawrence, E. MacDonald, …A. E. A. Tiliakou (Eds.), Dariali: the Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages. The joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge excavations & surveys 2013-2016 (303-412). Oxbow Books

Appendix III. Investigations of ancient canal systems in central and eastern Georgia (2020)
Book Chapter
Hopper, K., Lawrence, D., Pitskhelauri, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Appendix III. Investigations of ancient canal systems in central and eastern Georgia. In E. Sauer, L. Chologauri, A. Gabunia, K. Hopper, D. Lawrence, E. MacDonald, …et al. (Eds.), Dariali: the Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages. The joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge excavations & surveys 2013-2016 (937-954). Oxbow Books

The Development of Integrated Regional Economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from "Combed-Ware" jars (2019)
Journal Article
Badreshany, K., Philip, G., & Kennedy, M. (2020). The Development of Integrated Regional Economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from "Combed-Ware" jars. Levant, 52(1-2), 160-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1641009

This paper uses new petrographic and geochemical data (ICP-AES and -MS analyses) taken from samples of ‘Combed Ware’ jars occurring at sites on the Lebanese coast, the Bekaa Valley, the Orontes Valley around Homs and the North Jordan Valley, to inves... Read More about The Development of Integrated Regional Economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: new evidence from "Combed-Ware" jars.

A tool and methodology for rapid assessment and monitoring of heritage places in a disaster and post-disaster context: Syria as a case study (2019)
Book Chapter
Vafadari, A., Philip, G., & Jennings, R. (2019). A tool and methodology for rapid assessment and monitoring of heritage places in a disaster and post-disaster context: Syria as a case study. In M. Dawson, E. James, & M. Nevell (Eds.), Heritage under pressure – threats and solutions : studies of agency and soft power in the historic environment (87-100). Oxbow

A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria (2018)
Journal Article
Geyer, B., Braemer, F., Davtian, G., & Philip, G. (2019). A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria. Journal of Arid Environments, 163, 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.11.005

Over the last 30 years, geoarchaeological surveys undertaken in the Near East have offered a powerful way of studying, inter alia, water supply systems at a microregional to regional scale. However, efforts to synthesize the results of surveys at a s... Read More about A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria.

Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context (2018)
Journal Article
Kennedy, M., Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context. Levant, 52(1-2), 103-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1442076

This paper explores the late 3rd millennium BC goblet corpus from Tell Nebi Mend in the upper Orontes Valley, Syria, by comparing the form, size, petrographic and chemical composition of these drinking vessels. The available evidence suggests that Te... Read More about Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context.