Early Village Societies Research Group Seminar
5:00pm - 7:00pm /
Thursday 30th November 2017
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Professor Douglas Baird
- Admission: Admission is free.
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In the first seminar of the Early Village Societies research group for this academic year, two of our PhD students will be presenting on the first stages of their research and would welcome your participation and any feedback you might have on their research:
Jo-Hannah Plug: Uncovering a community: the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
Patrick Biedermann: From Clay- to Stone- Architecture. Urbanism, monumentality and political change based on Area A (Steinbau I) at Tell Chuera, Syria.
It has been 6 years since most archaeological fieldwork in Syria have come to a pause. Nonetheless, research continues on the vast amounts of data gained from this archaeologically rich part of the world. Two University of Liverpool PhD students, Patrick Biedermann and Jo-Hannah Plug, are currently working on important, and until recently largely uninvestigated datasets from two extensively excavated sites in northern Syria. Their research is not only similar in this regard, but also in that they both aim to gain insights into the ideological worlds of people at very crucial moments in time. Whereas Patrick Biedermann’s research focuses on the development of religious structures at Third Millennium BC Tell Chuera, Jo-Hannah Plug focuses on change and continuity within the mortuary record of late 7th, early 6th millennium BC Tell Sabi Abyad.
In his presentation “From Clay- to Stone- Architecture. Urbanism, monumentality and political change based on Area A (Steinbau I) at Tell Chuera, Syria” Patrick Biedermann presents first results of the extensive but unpublished excavations of the temenos area of Tell Chuera – the largest of the so-called Kranzhügel-sites and one of the key sites in 3rd millennium Northern Mesopotamia. Besides a large palatial complex, residential- and production areas, also a large temenos characterises the topography of the site. The research aims to gain more information about the site itself, about the development of religious structures and institutions, and about urbanisation processes during the 3rd Millennium in Northern Mesopotamia.
Jo-Hannah Plug will present her dataset and research questions in “Uncovering a community: the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria”. Tell Sabi Abyad has proven to be a key site within the investigation of the Late Neolithic, giving evidence for major innovations in subsistence, culture and society. Jo-Hannah Plug’s research aims to explore these processes using a promising strand of evidence - the mortuary record. By integrating the data relating to funerary customs, heath, and diet within one interpretative framework, she aims to achieve a better understanding of the impact of wider cultural change on the local community of this prehistoric site.
Jo-Hannah Plug: Uncovering a community: the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria.
Patrick Biedermann: From Clay- to Stone- Architecture. Urbanism, monumentality and political change based on Area A (Steinbau I) at Tell Chuera, Syria.
It has been 6 years since most archaeological fieldwork in Syria have come to a pause. Nonetheless, research continues on the vast amounts of data gained from this archaeologically rich part of the world. Two University of Liverpool PhD students, Patrick Biedermann and Jo-Hannah Plug, are currently working on important, and until recently largely uninvestigated datasets from two extensively excavated sites in northern Syria. Their research is not only similar in this regard, but also in that they both aim to gain insights into the ideological worlds of people at very crucial moments in time. Whereas Patrick Biedermann’s research focuses on the development of religious structures at Third Millennium BC Tell Chuera, Jo-Hannah Plug focuses on change and continuity within the mortuary record of late 7th, early 6th millennium BC Tell Sabi Abyad.
In his presentation “From Clay- to Stone- Architecture. Urbanism, monumentality and political change based on Area A (Steinbau I) at Tell Chuera, Syria” Patrick Biedermann presents first results of the extensive but unpublished excavations of the temenos area of Tell Chuera – the largest of the so-called Kranzhügel-sites and one of the key sites in 3rd millennium Northern Mesopotamia. Besides a large palatial complex, residential- and production areas, also a large temenos characterises the topography of the site. The research aims to gain more information about the site itself, about the development of religious structures and institutions, and about urbanisation processes during the 3rd Millennium in Northern Mesopotamia.
Jo-Hannah Plug will present her dataset and research questions in “Uncovering a community: the mortuary record of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria”. Tell Sabi Abyad has proven to be a key site within the investigation of the Late Neolithic, giving evidence for major innovations in subsistence, culture and society. Jo-Hannah Plug’s research aims to explore these processes using a promising strand of evidence - the mortuary record. By integrating the data relating to funerary customs, heath, and diet within one interpretative framework, she aims to achieve a better understanding of the impact of wider cultural change on the local community of this prehistoric site.