Nothing but Towers? The Early Bronze Age Landscape of Central Oman

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• 批准号: 406621686
• 负责人: Dr. Stephanie Döpper
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fach Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients (aufgelöst)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406621686?language=en
• 关键词: Nothing; but; Towers; Early; Bronze

The 3rd millennium BC in Oman was a period of fundamental change in social complexity, the use of new resources and modes of life. Little is known about the settlement patterns of this period. Scholarship views sites with monumental buildings as centres at the top of a settlement hierarchy, which have received the bulk of researchers’ attention in recent decades. However, there is a lack of data to substantiate this hypothesis, as the presence of small sites in their hinterland is largely unexplored. My DFG project in the Al-Mudhaybi region, which runs from 2018 to 2021 (and is in the process of being renewed until 2022), therefore aims to use a combination of different survey methods and small-scale excavations to gain detailed and comprehensive insights into the settlement pattern of the 3rd millennium BC in Central Oman as well as into the causes of the significant social changes of this period. So far, this project has found that (1) small non-monumental settlements are rare and thus common theories of settlement hierarchy need to be reconsidered, (2) monumental buildings were already built at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC and (3) activity declined in the study area during the Umm an-Nar period, contrary to the assumption that it represents a cultural peak. This challenges the narrative of a predominantly agrarian and sedentary society with a hierarchically structured settlement system in Central Oman during the Early Bronze Age and instead emphasises the role of mobile communities.Due to the unexpectedly large number of surface finds in the newly discovered settlements of Mukhtru and Sinaw, as well as the premature termination of the fieldwork in spring 2020, not all work can be completed as planned by the scheduled end of the project in October 2021. This means that data for statistically reliable statements on the settlement system and its development in the course of the Early Bronze Age are missing. Completing the systematic survey is particularly crucial to achieving the project’s aims. The systematic survey differs from traditional surveys in that it is not limited to surface collection of artefacts at sites previously identified or anticipated in the remote sensing or otherwise, but explicitly focusses on supposedly empty areas between sites. It is the only way to find smaller sites, such as nomadic groups’ campsites, and thus to produce a representative overall picture of the study area. For this reason, I am applying for an 8-month continuation of the project. This data will make it possible to comprehensively assess the settlement system and the related significance of socio-economic changes of the 3rd millennium BC in Central Oman for the first time.

阿曼公元前3千年是社会复杂性，新资源和生活方式的根本变化时期。关于此期间的设置模式知之甚少。奖学金观点的网站具有巨大的建筑物，位于定居层次结构顶部的中心，最近几十年来，这些网站都引起了大多数研究人员的关注。但是，由于缺乏数据来证实这一假设，因为在其hintland中的小地点的存在很大程度上没有探索。因此，我在Al-Mudhaybi地区的DFG项目从2018年到2021年（并且正在续签到2022年），因此旨在使用不同的调查方法和小规模发掘的组合，以详细且全面地洞察到3rd Millennium bc的设置模式，以使其在Oman中心中的3rd Millennium BC的设置模式，并涉及这一重要的变化。到目前为止，该项目发现（1）小型非债务定居点很少见，因此需要重新考虑设置层次结构的共同理论，（2）在公元前3千年开始建造了纪念建筑，并且（3）在Umm an-nar期间研究区域的活动中有所下降，与IT的假设相反，该假设代表了峰值。这挑战了一个主要是农业和久坐社会的叙述，其在青铜时代早期的层次结构化设置系统，而强调移动社区的作用。在穆克特鲁（Mukhtru）和辛（Sinaw）和辛格（Sinaw）的新统治下，所有在Spring of Plantination of Sprition the Spring 2020的终止，在新近发现的STAINTERTER中，出乎意料地发现了大量的表面，以及Spring 2020，这是所有人的表面。该项目于2021年10月。这意味着在统计上可靠的陈述及其在青铜时代早期完成系统调查过程中的统计可靠陈述的数据对于实现该项目的目标尤为重要。系统的调查与传统调查不同，因为它不仅限于在遥远敏感性或其他方面在先前识别或预期的站点的表面收集，但明确地集中在站点之间的预期空区域。这是找到较小地点的唯一方法，例如游牧集团的露营地，从而产生代表。研究区域的整体情况。因此，我正在申请该项目8个月的延续。这些数据将使您可以全面评估公元前第三千年在阿曼中部的社会经济变化的相关意义成为可能。