Mesopotamian Environmental Archaeology Database: phase I Iraq
Mike Charles, Keith Dobney, 2009. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000128. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000128
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Overview
Phase 1. Preliminary database of environmental archaeological remains recovered from sites in Iraq for all periods
Systematic recovery of environmental remains from archaeological sites in Iraq became a regular, though not uniform, component of archaeological excavation by the end of the 20th century. With the cessation of new excavation much of that material has now been analysed at least in a preliminary fashion. With the development of new techniques to address basic archaeological questions it is appropriate to produce a record of the work that has already been carried out and to assess work that has been undertaken in the fields of environmental archaeology and palaeoeconomy in the region, to make these data available to a wider audience and to suggest research priorities for the future.
The phase of the database presented here is based on a review of published data and includes essential details of sites and their archaeobotanical and archaeozoological assemblages recorded in a semi quantitative manner (the presence of major categories of remains) by period.
