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CATEGORIES:Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series
SUMMARY:‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultu
 ral Connections  in the 4th Millennium BCE in the 
 Zagros Foothills - Michael Lewis\, University of C
 ambridge.
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/159679
DESCRIPTION:Extensive excavation and survey of Late Chalcolith
 ic (c.4500-3100BCE) archaeological sites of northe
 rn Mesopotamia (modern Iraq\, Syria\, south-easter
 n Turkey and western Iran) have highlighted a pan-
 Mesopotamian web of shared cultural practices\, ar
 chitecture\, administrative technology and pottery
 . These excavations allowed for several important 
 syntheses\, most famously from a World Systems per
 spective to account for these cultural connections
 .\n\nThe Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRG) has been off
  limits to archaeological research until the last 
 decade. Since then\, new archaeological investigat
 ions have begun to take a bottom-up\, detail-orien
 ted approach to investigate the Uruk Phenomenon. T
 his presentation is based on data collected from s
 everal sites as part of my PhD.  Through a multidi
 sciplinary approach utilising macroscopic inspecti
 on\, ceramic petrography\, geochemical analysis\, 
 and FTIR\, I will discuss ceramic manufacture and 
 production before\, during and after the Uruk Phen
 omenon and use these results to discuss issues reg
 arding the nature of the Uruk transmission into th
 e KRG as well as raising issues of individual and 
 group identity. \n\nIt is hoped by the end of the 
 presentation to begin to place the sites and their
  communities within the wider context of the socia
 l transformations of the Late Chalcolithic and how
  they were affected by the Uruk Phenomenon.\n
LOCATION:Online via zoom
CONTACT:Laura Courto
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