Surface survey and geophysical prospection in the micro-region
of Tell Arbid, NE Syria : a preliminary report

D 2012

Surface survey and geophysical prospection in the micro-region of Tell Arbid, NE Syria : a preliminary report

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna, Marek VLACH, Jakub MATOUŠEK, Peter MILO, Tomáš TENCER et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Surface survey and geophysical prospection in the micro-region of Tell Arbid, NE Syria : a preliminary report

Authors

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Marek VLACH (203 Czech Republic), Jakub MATOUŠEK (203 Czech Republic), Peter MILO (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš TENCER (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Wiesbaden, Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), London, April, 12th-16th 2010, p. 17-32, 16 pp. 2012

Publisher

Harrassowitz Verlag

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60102 Archaeology

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/12:00063575

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-3-447-06686-0

Keywords in English

surface survey; Syria; Tell Arbid Abyad; Tell Arbid; geophysical prospection; Khabur region; Late Neolithic; Bronze Age

Abstract

V originále

One of the aims of the Czech Prehistoric Archaeological Project, attached to the Syria-Polish Expedition at Tell Arbid in the Upper Khabur area of NE Syria, is a field survey of the surrounding area. Results of the 2008-2009 field seasons are reported here. The survey covered a 133 hectare area near Wadi Abyad. In addition, two sites with Neolithic and Chalcolithic remains, Khirbet Bezi and Khirbet Shane, have been surveyed for surface finds. During the 16-day-survey, more than 21,000 sherds as well as lithics and pottery slag were retrieved, and their distribution was used to create interpolated raster layers of their density. We also have tested satellite-derived sites of high/low probability predicted by Jason Ur and Bjoern Menze (Menze, Ur 2007). Geophysical surveys at sites showing Neolithic to Iron Age remains were also carried out during the 2008 campaign in Syria. The Scintrex Navmag SM-5 Cesium Magnetometer measured the vertical gradient of the magnetic field over an area of 11.25 ha with a resolution of 1.0 x 0.15 m. The informative value of the geophysical survey varied from site to site, depending on the degree of (recent) soil- modification.

Links

MSM0021622427, plan (intention)

Name: Interdisciplinární centrum výzkumů sociálních struktur pravěku až vrcholného středověku. Archeologický terénní a teoretický výzkum, využití přírodních věd, metodologie a informatika, ochrana kulturního dědictví

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna, Marek VLACH, Jakub MATOUŠEK, Peter MILO and Tomáš TENCER. Surface survey and geophysical prospection in the micro-region of Tell Arbid, NE Syria : a preliminary report. In Matthews, Roger; Curtis, John. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), London, April, 12th-16th 2010. 1st ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, p. 17-32. ISBN 978-3-447-06686-0.

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N2  - One of the aims of the Czech Prehistoric Archaeological Project, attached to the Syria-Polish Expedition at Tell Arbid in the Upper Khabur area of NE Syria, is a field survey of the surrounding area. Results of the 2008-2009 field seasons are reported here. The survey covered a 133 hectare area near Wadi Abyad. In addition, two sites with Neolithic and Chalcolithic remains, Khirbet Bezi and Khirbet Shane, have been surveyed for surface finds. During the 16-day-survey, more than 21,000 sherds as well as lithics and pottery slag were retrieved, and their distribution was used to create interpolated raster layers of their density. We also have tested satellite-derived sites of high/low probability predicted by Jason Ur and Bjoern Menze (Menze, Ur 2007). Geophysical surveys at sites showing Neolithic to Iron Age remains were also carried out during the 2008 campaign in Syria. The Scintrex Navmag SM-5 Cesium Magnetometer measured the vertical gradient of the magnetic field over an area of 11.25 ha with a resolution of 1.0 x 0.15 m. The informative value of the geophysical survey varied from site to site, depending on the degree of (recent) soil- modification.
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MATEICIUCOVÁ, Inna, Marek VLACH, Jakub MATOUŠEK, Peter MILO and Tomáš TENCER. Surface survey and geophysical prospection in the micro-region of Tell Arbid, NE Syria : a preliminary report. In Matthews, Roger; Curtis, John. \textit{Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), London, April, 12th-16th 2010}. 1st ed. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2012, p.~17-32. ISBN~978-3-447-06686-0.

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