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Settlement in the Upper Orontes Valley from the Neolithic to the Islamic Period: an Instance of Punctuated Equilibrium

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents the main developments in settlement organization in the Orontes Valley around the modern city of Homs from the Neolithic through to the Islamic period. Data drawn from ten seasons of fieldwork undertaken by the project “Settlement and Landscape Development in the Homs Region, Syria (1999-2010)” are used to delineate the main developments in settlement distribution and organization in each of three contrasting landscape units. Settlement change over time in each unit is considered in terms of its possible relationship to political and economic developments at a wider regional scale.

Source: Syria

DOI: 10.4000/syria.4966

Authors: Graham Philip, Jennie Bradbury

Institutions: Durham University, University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and Historical Studies

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Leverhulme Trust, Council for British Research in the Levant, Durham University

Award: G5375092488