Revealing invisible stews:New results of organic residue analyses of beveled rim bowls from the late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan region of Iraq
| Autor: | Elsa Perruchini, Claudia Glatz, Synnøve Gravdal Heimvik, Robin Bendrey, Mette Marie Hald, Francesco Del Bravo, Salh Mohammed Sameen, Jaime Toney |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Archeology
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia Early complex societies early complex societies Urbanism Food and food practices 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499) Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499 Archäologie Beveled Rim Bowls urbanism Uruk expansion food and food practices |
| Zdroj: | Perruchini, E, Glatz, C, Heimvik, S G, Bendrey, R, Hald, M M, Del Bravo, F, Sameen, S M & Toney, J 2023, ' Revealing invisible stews : New results of organic residue analyses of beveled rim bowls from the late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan region of Iraq ', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 48, 103730, pp. 1-10 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103730 Perucchini, E, Glatz, C, Heimvik, S G, Bendrey, R, Hald, M M, Del Bravo, F, Sameen, S M & Toney, J 2022, ' Revealing invisible stews : new results of organic residue analyses of Beveled Rim Bowls from the Late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq ', Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103730 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103730 |
| Popis: | Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly and carelessly produced, these conical bowls are attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf to the highlands of eastern Turkey and Iran. Questions regarding their function and relationship with emergent state institutions have stood at the centre of nearly a century of debates about the nature of early Mesopotamian urbanism and the so-called Uruk Expansion. In this paper we present the results of organic residue analyses of 10 BRBs from the site of Shakhi Kora in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala River Valley in the Kurdistan Region of north-east Iraq. Our analytical results challenge traditional interpretations that see BRBs as containers of cereal-based rations and bread moulds. The presence of meat- and potentially also dairy-based foods in the Shakhi Kora vessels lends support to multi-purpose explanations and points to local processes of appropriation of vessel meaning and function. |
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