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SUMMARY:‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connecti
 ons  in the 4th Millennium BCE in the Zagros Foothills - Michael Lewis\, U
 niversity of Cambridge.
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CONTACT:Laura Courto
DESCRIPTION:Extensive excavation and survey of Late Chalcolithic (c.4500-3
 100BCE) archaeological sites of northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq\, Syria\
 , south-eastern Turkey and western Iran) have highlighted a pan-Mesopotami
 an web of shared cultural practices\, architecture\, administrative techno
 logy and pottery. These excavations allowed for several important synthese
 s\, most famously from a World Systems perspective to account for these cu
 ltural connections.\n\nThe Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRG) has been off limit
 s to archaeological research until the last decade. Since then\, new archa
 eological investigations have begun to take a bottom-up\, detail-oriented 
 approach to investigate the Uruk Phenomenon. This presentation is based on
  data collected from several sites as part of my PhD.  Through a multidisc
 iplinary approach utilising macroscopic inspection\, ceramic petrography\,
  geochemical analysis\, and FTIR\, I will discuss ceramic manufacture and 
 production before\, during and after the Uruk Phenomenon and use these res
 ults to discuss issues regarding the nature of the Uruk transmission into 
 the KRG as well as raising issues of individual and group identity. \n\nIt
  is hoped by the end of the presentation to begin to place the sites and t
 heir communities within the wider context of the social transformations of
  the Late Chalcolithic and how they were affected by the Uruk Phenomenon.\
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LOCATION:Online via zoom
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