2016/05/01 by Katia Gavagnin, Marco Iamoni, Rocco Palermo
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient Near East History #Ancient history #Archaeology #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Art #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Geography #History #Mesopotamia #Period (music) #Perspective (graphical) #Pottery #Visual arts
paper · doi:10.5615/bullamerschoorie.375.0119
crossref issued 2016/05/01 · crossref published 2016/05/01 · crossref published-print 2016/05/01 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/01 · crossref created 2016/05/13 · crossref deposited 2019/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/08/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
This article presents a preliminary study of the pottery collected during the 2012 and 2013 campaigns of the Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project in Iraqi Kurdistan. The report examines the morphology, distribution, and relative implications of a wide spectrum of ceramic types, spanning from the Early Pottery Neolithic to the Sasanian period. In particular, it focuses on the local aspects of the material culture, as well as on regional and transregional connections, and thus aims at placing the pottery assemblages in the broader perspective of upper Mesopotamia's diverse ceramic traditions. Despite its preliminary nature, this report embodies a substantial overview of the ceramics surveyed, which will serve as a departure point for future inquiries and more detailed analyses of the ceramic traditions of the upper Tigris region between the seventh millennium b.c. and the seventh century a.d.