LevantPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2265141
Neil Brodie
{"title":"Academic ‘ethics’ and the Schøyen Collection Aramaic incantation bowls: a personal narrative","authors":"Neil Brodie","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2265141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2265141","url":null,"abstract":"The Aramaic incantation bowls in the possession of the Schøyen Collection have been the subject of academic controversy and police search. This paper discusses the ethical dimensions of scholarly e...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus","authors":"Despina Pilides","doi":"affiliations","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/affiliations","url":null,"abstract":"Rampant unregulated excavation, at a time when archaeological practice was still unknown, opened the way to massive exportation of cultural objects from Cyprus, in parallel with other countries und...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138714546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2272397
Patty Gerstenblith
{"title":"Setting the standard: the 1970 standard and ethical codes of archaeological organizations","authors":"Patty Gerstenblith","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2272397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2272397","url":null,"abstract":"Many archaeological organizations have adopted policies that prohibit being the place of first publication, or announcement, of archaeological artefacts that do not comply with the 1970 standard. C...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"123 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2278287
Lesley A. Gregoricka
{"title":"The ethics of excavating: bioarchaeology and the case for rehabilitating legacy human skeletal collections in the Near East","authors":"Lesley A. Gregoricka","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2278287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2278287","url":null,"abstract":"Excavation is considered by many to be an inextricable part of bioarchaeology, generating assemblages of human skeletons that bioarchaeologists rely on to reconstruct the past. However, in the Near...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2282822
Shatha Mubaideen
{"title":"Towards a bottom-up approach for collaboration in cultural heritage: the case of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) Amman Institute and the JEA's Urban Heritage Preservation Committee","authors":"Shatha Mubaideen","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2282822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2282822","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 19th century, Jordan, with its diverse and rich heritage, has been a thriving hub for international scholars and researchers. To further this pursuit, several international research insti...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2282268
Despina Pilides
{"title":"Illicit trafficking of cultural objects: the case of Cyprus","authors":"Despina Pilides","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2282268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2282268","url":null,"abstract":"Rampant unregulated excavation, at a time when archaeological practice was still unknown, opened the way to massive exportation of cultural objects from Cyprus, in parallel with other countries und...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138686953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2274666
Morag M. Kersel
{"title":"Do the right thing","authors":"Morag M. Kersel","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2274666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2274666","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138520718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2274872
Jon Seligman, Elie Haddad, Liat Nadav-Ziv
{"title":"Yavne and the industrial production of Gaza and Ashqelon wines","authors":"Jon Seligman, Elie Haddad, Liat Nadav-Ziv","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2274872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2274872","url":null,"abstract":"Recent excavations at Yavne show the scale of the wine industry at the site, indicating the central place of its wineries in the viticulture, processing and trade of wines from Ashqelon and Gaza du...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2267279
Nadine Panayot, Aimée Bou Rizk, Duygu Çamurcuog˘lu, Claire Cuyaubère, Joanne Dyer, James Fraser, Ian Freestone, Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Andrew Meek
{"title":"Shattered glass of Beirut: collaboration between the Archaeological Museum (American University of Beirut) and international partners following the 2020 port explosion","authors":"Nadine Panayot, Aimée Bou Rizk, Duygu Çamurcuog˘lu, Claire Cuyaubère, Joanne Dyer, James Fraser, Ian Freestone, Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Andrew Meek","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2267279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2267279","url":null,"abstract":"The Archaeological Museum at the American University of Beirut (AUB) lies approximately 3 km west of the main port of Beirut, the site of the massive explosion that sent a catastrophic shockwave th...","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"40 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138520719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LevantPub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1080/00758914.2023.2258702
Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux, Samer Sahlah, Abdulaziz al-Oniri
{"title":"An Early Bronze Age stone tool assemblage from al-Badʿ Oasis in northern Arabia: a technological and functional analysis","authors":"Yamandú H. Hilbert, Guillaume Charloux, Samer Sahlah, Abdulaziz al-Oniri","doi":"10.1080/00758914.2023.2258702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2258702","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractArchaeological research on the 4th millennium BCE throughout the Levant has shown how craft specialization, extended trade and supply routes, as well as increased social stratification, established the foundation for the urban Early Bronze Age formation process in the third quarter of the 4th millennium BCE. The specific context of northern Arabia, along the fringes of the fertile crescent, remains, on the contrary, largely unexplored. In this paper lithic finds from an Early Bronze I village, named al-Rudaydah in al-Badʿ Oasis, situated in north-western Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea, are presented. All the stone tool artefacts, over 100 lithics, found in a rectangular drystone masonry dwelling, were subjected to technological and traceological analyses. Most of the artefacts are small chips and flakes resulting from tool maintenance and recycling. Formal tools include so-called tabular scrapers and trapezoidal blade segments with gloss. The results show that the scrapers were likely imported as blanks or ready-made tools, the glossy artefacts were likely sickle insets.Keywords: Early Bronze Agelithicsspatial organizationtraceologynorthern Arabia AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to warmly thank Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al-Saud, Ministry of Culture, Jasir al-Herbich, CEO Heritage Commission and Dr Abdullah al-Zahrani, Director of Archaeology, and Heritage Commission team for their support. The oasis of al-Badʿ has been studied by the Saudi-French Archaeological Project in al-Badʿ directed by G. Charloux and S. Sahlah since 2017. In addition to the support from the Heritage Commission of the Saudi Ministry of Culture, the project benefits from the funding of many French institutions, in particular the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Mondes sémitiques team at the laboratory Orient & Méditerranée (UMR 8167), the French Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs, the French Embassy in Riyadh and the French Centre for research on the Arabian Peninsula (Cefrepa). The analysis of the lithics material conducted by Y. Hilbert was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement number 101001889, REVIVE). We are in great debt to two anonymous reviewers for highlighting inconsistencies and shortcomings of an earlier version of this manuscript. We also thank Scott D. McLin and Eliot Braun for proofreading our manuscript and useful comments.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The transitional Chalcolithic–EB I sites of Tall al-Magass and Tall Hujayrāt al-Ghuzlān in Aqaba precede that of Rudaydah by a few centuries (Khalil and Schmidt Citation2009).2 Opened in 2019 by D. M. Cabaret and extended in 2021 by G. Charloux.3 All lithics were returned to the Heritage Commission in Saudi Arabia on 27 September 2022.","PeriodicalId":45348,"journal":{"name":"Levant","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135590393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}