Dissertation Research: Examination of Prehistoric Jordanian Economies

兰贝格-卡尔洛夫斯基 在Lamberg-Karlovsky博士的指导下，Meridith Chesson女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。在1993年试点工作的基础上，Chesson女士和她的合作者将在Tell el-Handaquq遗址进行考古挖掘 南部的历史可以追溯到青铜时代早期，位于约旦河谷。研究表明，整个10公顷的场地都有坚固的防御墙。 至少有七座塔楼补充了防御系统。在整个场地上，表面上可以看到房间块，有些墙壁延伸超过30米。在一组房间中进行的测试挖掘揭示了与陶瓷，石器，动物和基石遗迹相关的国内建筑。因此，该网站有可能在近东地区首次出现强化的高度组织化的村庄时，为家庭组织提供重要的新信息。女士 Chesson将发现一个大的国内地区，并分析由此恢复的文化材料的范围。她将试图重建家庭大院内发生的社会和经济活动的范围，并确定青铜时代早期家庭单位的性质，功能和重要性。 考古学家对导致城市和复杂文明兴起的过程感兴趣。虽然传统上，人们的注意力主要集中在寺庙和主要的公共建筑上，但考古学和人种学研究表明，家庭构成了发生变化和适应的基本层面。由于有明确证据表明Tel el-Handaquq有住户大院，而且很容易挖掘，该地点为研究这一问题提供了一个极好的机会。该项目也很重要，因为它将产生许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并有助于培养有前途的年轻科学家。

Lamberg-Karlovsky Under the direction of Dr. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Ms. Meridith Chesson will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Building on pilot work in 1993, Ms. Chesson and her collaborators will conduct archaeological excavation at the site of Tell el-Handaquq South which dates to the Early Bronze Age and which is located in the Jordan Valley. Research indicates the presence of substantial fortification walls which encompass the entire 10 hectare site. At lease seven towers complement the fortification system. Over the entire site, room blocks are visible on the surface, some with walls extending for more than 30 meters. Test excavations in one set of room blocks revealed domestic architecture with associated ceramic, lithic, faunal and groundstone remains. The site therefore has the potential to shed significant new light into household organization during the period when fortified highly organized villages first emerged in the Near East. Ms. Chesson will uncover a large domestic area and analyze the range of cultural materials thus recovered. She will attempt both to reconstruct the range of social and economic activities which occurred within household compounds and to determine the nature, function and importance of the household unit in Early Bronze Age times. Archaeologists are interested in the processes which lead to the rise of cities and complex civilizations. While traditionally, much attention has been focussed on temples and major public buildings, both archaeological and ethnographic research indicate that the household constitutes the basic level at which change and adaptation occurs. Given clearcut evidence for the presence of household compounds at Tel el-Handaquq and the ease with which they can be excavated, the site provides an excellent opportunity for examination of this issue. The project is also important because it will both produce data of interest to many archaeologists and assist in the training of a promising young sci entist.