Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/49424
Titolo: Settlement organization and traits of material culture in the Malatya Plain along the Upper Euphrates between the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC: patterns of change and elements of continuity
Autori: Di Nocera, Gian Maria 
Rivista: ORIGINI 
Data pubblicazione: 2022
Abstract: 
This contribution aims at reconsidering the available data regarding the second half of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC at the site of Arslantepe-Turkey, in relation to the Malatya plain and, more generally, the Upper Euphrates region. This time span is associated with the Early Bronze III and Middle Bronze Ages. The stratigraphic investigations carried out at Arslantepe and the survey projects carried out in the plain have allowed to identify an articulated organization of the settlements in the region. These studies are associated with climatological and environmental research, which made it possible to determine that a period of drought occurred at a local level between 2300 and 2200 BC. According to the outcomes of investigations on the ratio of stable carbon isotopes 12 and 13, around 2000 BC winter precipitation seem to have been more intense than the current one. Furthermore, the current summer dryness is less than or equal to the one recorded around 2200 BC. The problem is whether at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd millennium significant cultural and settlement pattern changes occurred in relation to climatic variables. Although climate variations have been preliminarily documented, the archaeological data regarding the Upper Euphrates actually tend to underline cultural and settlement continuity throughout the region, with a significant change only after the first quarter of the 2nd millennium BC.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/49424
ISSN: 0474-6805
Diritti: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
È visualizzato nelle collezioni:A1. Articolo in rivista

File in questo documento:
File Descrizione DimensioniFormato Existing users please
Di Nocera 2022-Origini 46.pdfSettlement organization in the Malatya Plain1.57 MBAdobe PDF  Richiedi una copia
Visualizza tutti i metadati del documento

Page view(s)

47
Last Week
0
Last month
3
controllato il 27-mar-2024

Download(s)

1
controllato il 27-mar-2024

Google ScholarTM

Check


Questo documento è distribuito in accordo con Licenza Creative Commons Creative Commons