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The Early Bronze IV period (2600-2000 BCE) in the southern Levant has traditionally been described as a rural interlude between the collapse of the region’s first proto-urban centres in the EB II-III and their rejuvenation as a network of city-states in the early MBA. During this period, populations are thought to have dispersed into village communities that practiced simple forms of agro-pastoral farming. These approaches have overlooked the significance of several small but well-defended “enclosure” sites. Such sites were new foundations on the well-drained slopes of the Jordan Rift Valley escarpment, in areas better suited to the cultivation of upland tree crops than the flood-prone Jordan Valley floor.
The Khirbet Ghozlan Excavation Project proposes a model of horticultural specialisation that interprets enclosure sites as processing centres for upland fruit crops such as olive, and suggests they were enclosed to defend caches of seasonally-produced cash-crop commodities such as oil. This model explores how high-value liquid products helped promote a complex rural economy that reconfigured aspects of earlier urban production within smaller-scale exploitation of niche environmental zones. Ultimately, such forms of economic resilience may have underlain the rejuvenation of urban systems in the early 2nd millennium BC. This paper presents the results of the 2017, 2019 and 2022 excavations at the 0.4 ha enclosure site of Khirbet Um al-Ghozlan near Kufr Abil in the Wadi Rayyan. It examines the archaeobotanical, architectural, ceramic and lithic evidence for interpreting the site as a specialised olive oil production and storage site.
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We are pleased to inform you that the electronic version of the 36th volume of our journal, Études et Travaux, is already available (in Open Access model) on the journal’s website (http://www.etudesettravaux.iksiopan.pl/index.php/en/current-issue). The volume contains a special section devoted to the south-east Arabia, as well as a number of regular contributions.
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the workshop: “Aqua Paphia: The Use and Meaning of Water in Hellenistic-Roman Nea Paphos and Beyond”, which will take place on 5-6 July 2024 via an online platform MS Teams.
The workshop will focus on the links between water and the urban and cultural development of ancient Nea Paphos and other Cypriot and Mediterranean cities during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.
UPDATE! Deadline for proposals: 07 May 2024 (to be sent to ).
For more details, please refer to the attached invitation. We would be sincerely grateful if you could extend it to the interested parties.
We would be delighted if you chose to join us!
Organizing Committee:
Marcin M. Romaniuk, Ph.D. cand.
The Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Michał Michalik, Ph.D. cand.
The Doctoral School in the Humanities, Jagiellonian University of Krakow
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