Contextual analysis of the use of space at two Near Eastern Bronze Age sites

This archive represents the raw material of a project designed to collect and analyse data from two Near Eastern excavations, Tell Brak in north-eastern Syria, and Kilise Tepe in southern Turkey. The project was jointly initiated by Dr. R.J. Matthews and J.N. Postgate, and was funded by the Leverhulme Trust (Grant F757).

These data were intended to throw light on the use of space within two different urban settlements, and, by adopting standardised objectives and procedures, to enable comparison between the same phenomena at two different sites.

The archive consists of

• a general table of contents and introductory preface
• introductions to the excavations at
  • Tell Brak (1994-1996)
  • Kilise Tepe (1994-1998)
• reports on
  • the Archaeobotanical Analyses
  • the Vertebrate Remains from the Tell Brak bulk-sieve samples
  • the Zooarchaeological Analysis
  • the Micromorphological Analysis of Occupational Sequences
  • the Pottery Analyses
• and two appendices, a simple classification of deposit classes and use categories, and a standard zoo-archaeological recording form.  

• Introduction
• Overview
• Downloads
• Metadata
• Usage Statistics