Syria (Geographic Keyword)

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Palmyra: Heritage Adrift (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cheikhmous ALI.

This report contains details on all damage done to the archaeological site of Palmyra between February 2012 and June 2015. Palmyra is one of six Syrian sites registered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the World Heritage List since 1980. On June 20, 2013, Palmyra and the other five sites (Bosra, Damascus, Crac des Chevaliers and the Citadel of Salah ed-Din, Aleppo, and the Ancient Villages of Northern Syria) were then registered on the List of...

PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF A KILN ASH SAMPLE, TELL LEILAN, NORTHEAST SYRIA (1997)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single sample of ash from a kiln at Tell Leilan was examined for phytoliths. The kiln dates to approximately 2500 B.C. and was filled with over-sintered pottery (stacked wasters). The interior walls of the kiln had begun to melt and most of the pots were warped and crumbly. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to identify the fuel used in this mid-third millennium kiln.

Pottery Manufacture and Trade at the Prehistoric Site of Telkl Aqab, Syria (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas E. Davidson.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Pression et percussion. Identification des stigmates sur des nucléus naviformes (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only G Déraprahamian. F Abbès.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

The Recapture of Palmyra (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Cuneo. Susan Penacho. Michael Danti. Marina Gabriel. Jamie O'Connell.

The region of Palmyra and modern Tadmor was taken from ISIL militants by a coalition of Syrian, Russian, and Iranian military forces on March 24, 2016. This report will provide a summary of what is known to have taken place in the area since September 2015, including a synopsis of the humanitarian and military situation since then and the effects the conflict has had on the cultural heritage of ancient and modern Palmyra. This report is a preliminary analysis of a rapidly developing event, and...

Reconstructing the hull (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J R Steffy.

Schleuder und Bogen in Südwestasien: von den frühesten Belegen bis zum Beginn der historischen Stadtstaaten (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M Korfmann.

Scientific experiments: a possibility? Presenting a cyclical script for experiments in archaeology (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yvonne M J Lammers-Keijsers. Rüdiger Kelm. Roeland P Paardekooper. Hana Dohnálková. J. Kateřina Dvořáková.

Sie bauten mit Lehm: Beispiele früher Lehmarchitektur in Vorderasien (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Sind jungpaläolitische Knochenflöten Vorläufer mediteraner Hirtenflöten? (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fritz Seeberger.

Situating Syrian-ness in France: Asylum and Diaspora in Paris (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2019)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Maddox.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. To answer the question of how exiled Syrians forge their own lifeworlds in Paris, France, this study employs ethnographic methods to explore the unique conception of Syrian-ness that emerges from biographies shaped by the legacy of French colonialism, Syrian nationalism, and the ongoing violence in Syria. While categories such as "refugee," "asylum seeker," and "French citizen of Syrian...

Special Report on the Importance of Palmyra (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Danti. Tate Paulette. LeeAnn Barnes Gordon. Abdalraqqaq Moaz. Cheikhmous Ali. Kathryn Franklin. David Elitzer.

The purpose of this report is to provide a concise introduction to the site of Palmyra and its importance so that the international community can better understand why it should be saved. The ancient city of Palmyra stands out as one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in Syria and, indeed, the world. Following the takeover of the site and the adjacent town of Tadmor by ISIL (IS or ISIS), Palmyra has been in the news daily. On May 12, 2015, ISIL launched an attack on Palmyra. ISIL...

Stone shares of ploughing implements from the Bronze Age of Syria (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Axel Steensberg.

Stálá expozice Monoxylon v ZOO Dvur Králové nad Labem [English summary: exposition of the Monoxylon workgroup in a zoo] (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marek Štepán. Et Al. Radomír Tichý.

Technological studies of ancient ceramics from the Near East, Aegean, and Southeast Europe (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Et Al. Nigel D Meeks. M S Tite. Y Maniatis.

Technologie du débitage à Mureybet, Syrie - 9e-8e millénaire (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S Calley.

Traces d'utilisation sur les haches polies de Bouqras (Syrie) (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J J Roodenberg.

Traces d'utilisation sur les outils néolithiques du Proche Orient (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M -C Cauvin.

Update on the Situation in Palmyra (2015)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Cuneo. Susan Penacho. LeeAnn Barnes Gordon.

Since its capture by ISIL (IS or ISIS) militants in May 2015, the region around the ancient city of Palmyra (modern Tadmor) has been in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, which has escalated dramatically in recent weeks. This report will provide a summary of the current situation in Palmyra and the effects of the conflict on its people and cultural heritage. Atrocities include attacks on civilians and mass abductions. Intentional damage to the cultural materials of the local populations is...

Weapon technology, prey size selection and hunting methods in modern hunter-gatherers: implications for hunting in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S E Churchill.