Origins, Structure, Development and Sociology of CIRCULAR CITIES OF EARLY BRONZE AGE SYRIA

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1 Origins, Structure, Development and Sociology of CIRCULAR CITIES OF EARLY BRONZE AGE SYRIA Interna onal workshop Lyon, November 2013 Amphithéâtre Benveniste Maison de l Orient et de la Méditerranée - Jean Pouilloux ANR-09-FASHS-010

2 COORGANISERS Corinne CASTEL CNRS, Maison de l Orient et de la Méditerranée, Laboratoire «Archéorient ; Environnements et sociétés de l Orient ancien», France Jan Waalke MEYER Philippe QUENET Michel AL-MAQDISSI Goethe Universität - Frankfurt am Main, Germany CNRS-UMR 7044, ArcHiMedE/ Université de Strasbourg, France Direcon Générale des Anquités et des Musées de Syrie

3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Welcoming par!cipants Opening Anne SCHMIDT, Director of the Maison de l Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux Emmanuelle VILA, Director of the CNRS laboratory «Archéorient ; Environnements et sociétés de l Orient ancien» Welcome address and short introduc!on by the co-organizers of the conference Corinne CASTEL (CNRS, Maison de l Orient, Laboratory «Archéorient», France) Jan Waalke MEYER (University of Francfort, Germany) Michel AL"MAQDISSI (General Direc!on of An!qui!es and Museums, Syria) Philippe QUENET (CNRS-UMR 7044, ArcHiMedE/ Université de Strasbourg, France) Circular ci!es: urbanism, birth and diffusion Chairman: Michel Al-Maqdissi CASTEL C. Circular Syrian cies of the 3rd millennium: a single urban model? QUENET Ph. Syrian urbanism in the 3rd millennium BC: spaal and temporal distribuon of the circular model MEYER J.W. Birth of circular cies HELMS T. and QUENET Ph. Circular ci!es: for!fica!ons and official areas The forficaon of circular cies Buffet-Lunch (library hall) Circular ci!es: for!fica!ons and official areas (end) Chairman: Pascal Bu$erlin KROMBERG O. Creang the urban landscape: the emergence of monumentality in 3rd millennium Chuera TAMM A. The Early Bronze Age palace of Chuera and the decline of the 3rd millennium se"lement - 3 -

4 15.00 CHITI B. Circular cies: houses and material culture Housing in circular cies. The domesc architecture of circular planned urban se lements in Early Bronze Age Syria BABOUR T. and MOUAMAR G BINDER A. A comparison of Early Bronze Age ceramic assemblages from circular cies in western Syria and the Jazira Djemdet Nasr or Early Bronze Age III? Dang Tell Chuera seal impression find spots Coffee break Environment and circular cies Chairman: Heinrich Tiemeyer WILKINSON T. and SMITH S. The circular cies of Northern Syria in their environmental context AL DBIYAT M. Subsistence strategy in the Syrian steppe during Anquity: the example of the Tell Al-Rawda region HERVEUX L. Subsistence strategies and plant economy of circular cies of Early Bronze Age Syria VILA E. Animal economy at the end of third millenium in the Syrian Badiyah Dinner FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Peri-urban construcons and sites Chairman: Shahmardan Amirov 9.30 THIEMEYER H. Soils and potenal land use around Tell Chuera in the 3rd millennium BC KUDLEK V. Central sites within the Wadi Hamar Survey: aspects of city planning in the badiyah regions BARGE O. and CHAMBRADE M.-L. Agro-pastoral potenals and peri-urban agricultural construcons in the microregion of Al-Rawda - 4 -

5 11.00 Coffee break BROCHIER J.É Chronology Al-Rawda, an ephemeral city in the arid margins of Syria HEMPELMANN R. Origins of the model Origin and early development of Tell Chuera and nearby se!lements Buffet-Lunch (library hall) Origins of the model (end) Chairwoman: Anne Porter FALB. C. Retracing the Early Bronze Age: The Frankfurt University s Southeast Anatolia Project PERELLO B. The spa"al organiza"on, development and sociology of circular villages in Early Bronze Age Anatolia Jazirah BUTTERLIN P. Mari, morphogenesis and evolu"on of a round City LEBEAU M. Recent discoveries at Tell Beydar (Syria), in par"cular south of the Acropolis Coffee break Jazirah (end) Chairwoman: Maria-Giovanna Biga AMIROV S. N. Tell Hazna I: a concentric planned se!lement in the Habur Steppe - 5 -

6 17.00 CHEIKHMOUS A. Tell Tcholemah Fawqani : a new circular city of the Early Bronze Age in the Khabur Triangle QUENET Ph. and SULTAN A. A season s work at Khirbet Malhat SULTAN A. Bishri The contribu!on of Bishri to the study of third millennium circular ci!es Dinner SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Shamiyah Chairman: Marc Lebeau 9.30 CASTEL C. and AWAD N. Tell Al-Rawda, a planned circular city of the mid/late third millennium in the arid zone of Syria MOUAMAR G. Circular ci!es in the steppic land (Shamiyah): a defensive role? MAQDISSI M. Sour, Qatna and Mabtuh Esh-Sharqi Coffee break Society and textual sources BIGA M.G. and CATAGNOTI A. The contribu!on of the Ebla textual sources to the study of circular ci!es of the third millennium BC SALLABERGER W. Tell Beydar, Ebla and Girsu: economic management and poli!cal control in comparison Buffet-Lunch (third floor) - 6 -

7 Society and textual sources (end) Chairman: Nazir Awad PORTER A. The shape of social structure: the organizaon of round cies and their polical correlates Urbanism, other perspec!ves VALLET R. Town planning in 3rd millennium Mesopotamia: a view from the alluvial plain QUAY J.Y. Town geometry: history and site at work Final discussion and follow-up ac!vi!es moderated by J-W. MEYER, C. CASTEL, Ph. QUENET and M. Al-MAQDISSI Publica!on of the Conference - 7 -

Arcane ESF Programme Marc Lebeau Chairman SCIENTIFIC REPORT

Arcane ESF Programme Marc Lebeau Chairman European Centre for Upper Mesopotamian Studies 41 Boulevard A. Reyers, Bte 6 B-100 Bruxelles, Belgium Tel.: +2.2.7.4.4 Fax: +2.2.7.21.69 E-mail: marc.lebeau@chello.be