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Papers by Peter Pfälzner
in: S. Lange – J. Schmid – A. Wissing, Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qaṭna, Teil 1: Befunde und Fundverteilung im Korridor und in der Vorkammer, Qaṭna Studien 8, Wiesbaden, XXXIII-LI, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
in: E. Geith – T. Abd el-Hay – J. Schmid, Der Königspalast von Qaṭna. Teil 2: Architektur, Stratigrafie, Keramik und Funde des westlichen Zentralbereiches, Qaṭna Studien 6, Wiesbaden, XLV-LXV, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
Qatna Studien 5, I-XLVI, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-gal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk. Herausgegeben von Jessica Baldwin und Jana Matuszak unter Mitarbeit von Manuel Ceccarelli. dubsar 17., 2020
Der erste Versuch einer Stadtgeschichte von Mardama(n)
in: D. Wicke (Hrsg.), Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Orient. 9. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 30. März – 1. April 2016, Frankfurt am Main, CDOG 9, 235-260, 2019
in: Manfred Bietak, Paolo Matthiae and Silvia Prell (Eds.), Ancient Egyptioan and ancient Near Eastern palaces. Volume II, Proceedings of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, 25–26 April 2016, Wiesbaden, 117-142, 2019
Archaeology. Journal of the Iranian Center for Archeological Research, Vol. 2.2, 2019
The SOJAS (South-of-Jiroft Archaeological Survey) project aims at investigating the relations bet... more The SOJAS (South-of-Jiroft Archaeological Survey) project aims at investigating the relations between the Jiroft region and the shores of the Persian Gulf by investigating settlements, routes, and natural resources in the plains und valleys south of Jiroft, within the limits of the province of Kerman. 209 archaeological sites have been discovered in the seasons of 2015–2018, located in several survey zones, among which the plains of Boluk and Faryab are the most prominent. Furthermore, the Varamin strip of the Middle Halil Rud Valley and the Lower Halil Rud Valley proved to be important settlement zones. Large-scale occupation in the region starts in the Early and Middle Chalcolithic periods, with a first marked increase in the Late Chalcolithic. During the Early Bronze Age, dense settlement patterns develop in nearly all parts of the region. Several sites seem to be related to the procurement and exchange of chlorite artefacts. Of special importance is a probable miner’s site within the Bagh-e Borj Mountains, an area where natural chlorite outcrops are most abundant. The end of the Early Bronze Age is characterized by a collapse of settlement systems. Only very few sites exist during the 2nd millennium and the first half of the 1st millennium BC. A full-scale re-occupation of the whole region takes place during the Achaemenid period. This trend continues into the Arsacid period, when the number of sites was doubled compared to the previous period. This is the period with the largest number of sites in the region. Further continuity of dense occupation can be witnessed during the Sasanian and the Early Islamic to Seljuk periods. After the Seljuk period, a second settlement collapse takes place, which left the region only sparsely occupied until modern times, when cities and villages in the region expanded as a consequence of agricultural intensification.
Journal of Field Archaeology 43:4, 269-283, 2018
in: Bradbury, J., & Scarre, C. (ed). Engaging with the Dead: exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body, Oxbow Books, Oxford – Philadelphia, 149-162., 2017
Peter Pfälzner and Nader A. Soleimani, AMIT 47, 2017
The University of Tübingen and ICAR (Tehran, Iran) jointly initiated a new archaeological project... more The University of Tübingen and ICAR (Tehran, Iran) jointly initiated a new archaeological project in the Jiroft Region of South-Eastern Iran in 2015. A systematic archaeological, geographical and geological survey is carried out in a vast region to the south of Jiroft, comprising the Halil Rud Basin and several plains to the south of it. Settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods and natural deposits of stone materials, such as chlorite and diorite, are a particular focus of the project. The results will contribute to a better understanding of interregional exchange and communication routes between the Halil Rud Basin and neighbouring regions, especially during the Bronze Age.
ZOrA 10, 2017
The two settlements of Muqable I and III, located 5 km to the south-east of Bassetki in the Dohuk... more The two settlements of Muqable I and III, located 5 km to the south-east of Bassetki in the Dohuk province of Iraq-Kurdistan, are being excavated since 2015 in the frame of the cooperation project KUGAMID of the University of Tübingen and die Directorate of Antiquities at Dohuk. The aim of the excavations is, on the one hand, to investigate the pre-stages in the Late Chalcolithic period of the Northern Mesopotamian urbanisation and, on the other hand, to study a subordinate settlement in the environs of a Bronze Age urban centre. During the first season of 2015, the stratigraphy of both sites could be determined, and well-dated chronological-stratigraphic units of the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age could be defined on the basis of pottery repertories and connected C14 datings, in one instance complemented by a group of sealings of the Ninevite V period. They are important components of a detailed chronology of the region in the mentioned periods.
ZOrA 10, 2017
The University of Tübingen and the Directorate of Antiquities Dohuk launched excavations in the f... more The University of Tübingen and the Directorate of Antiquities Dohuk launched excavations in the frame of a joint project at the Bronze Age urban site of Bassetki, which is famous for the accidental discovery of the copper basis of the Akkadian ruler Naram-Sin. The major aim of the excavations is to investigate the importance and urban development of the site from the Early through the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. During the first two seasons of 2015 and 2016 the stratigraphy and chronology of the upper town were explored, as well as the settlement organisation of the extended lower town, and an extra-urban area to the south of the city, where a street and several cremation burials of the Middle Bronze Age were found.
ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SEMINARS • NUMBER 11, 2017
How to Cope with Death: Mourning and Funerary Practices in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the International Workshop Firenze 2013, ed. by Candida Felli, 2016
In this article, it will be attempted to elaborate on a differentiation between the dead and the... more In this article, it will be attempted to elaborate on a differentiation between the dead
and the ancestors from a theoretical point of view, and, upon this basis, with regard to royal contexts of the 2nd millennium BC in ancient Syria. The main questions to be discussed in this respect are the following: when does a dead person become an ancestor? And how is this reflected in funerary rituals and grave contexts? And finally, can we detect the difference archaeologically?
D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque médiévale, Actes du colloque international tenu les 13 et 14 décembre 2012 à Nanterre (MAE) et à Paris (INHA), Syria Supplément IV (Beyrouth 2016), 159-182., 2016
in: D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque m... more in: D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque médiévale.
The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions, ed. by K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis, Jun 2016
The first season of the Tübingen EHAS project in 2013 has proven the enormous archaeological pot... more The first season of the Tübingen EHAS project in
2013 has proven the enormous archaeological potential
of the survey region with its interesting and diverse
geographic zones. The preliminary data on settlement
patterns suggest a first settlement in the Neolithic
period, a continuous albeit sparse occupation in the
Chalcolithic, an intensive Early Bronze Age occupation,
continuous settlement during the Middle and Late
Bronze Age, the latter represented by both the Mittani
and the Middle Assyrian pottery tradition, and a slight
decline of settlement intensity during the Iron Age.
The later periods, from Hellenistic through Parthian
and Sassanian to the Islamic periods, are equally well
attested. Future field-work will be aimed at intensifying
the archaeological survey in Zones B and C and also
in the other survey areas (Zones A, D-E). The GIS
mapping of the settlement system, as well as the
identification of available resources, ecological factors
and communication routes will hopefully contribute to a
better understanding of the impact of the Mesopotamian
empires upon the local cultures and societies through
time.
in: S. Lange – J. Schmid – A. Wissing, Der Königsgruftkomplex von Qaṭna, Teil 1: Befunde und Fundverteilung im Korridor und in der Vorkammer, Qaṭna Studien 8, Wiesbaden, XXXIII-LI, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
in: E. Geith – T. Abd el-Hay – J. Schmid, Der Königspalast von Qaṭna. Teil 2: Architektur, Stratigrafie, Keramik und Funde des westlichen Zentralbereiches, Qaṭna Studien 6, Wiesbaden, XLV-LXV, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
Qatna Studien 5, I-XLVI, 2019
Summary in German, English and Arabic
mu-zu an-za3-še3 kur-ur2-še3 ḫe2-gal2. Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk. Herausgegeben von Jessica Baldwin und Jana Matuszak unter Mitarbeit von Manuel Ceccarelli. dubsar 17., 2020
Der erste Versuch einer Stadtgeschichte von Mardama(n)
in: D. Wicke (Hrsg.), Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Orient. 9. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 30. März – 1. April 2016, Frankfurt am Main, CDOG 9, 235-260, 2019
in: Manfred Bietak, Paolo Matthiae and Silvia Prell (Eds.), Ancient Egyptioan and ancient Near Eastern palaces. Volume II, Proceedings of a workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, 25–26 April 2016, Wiesbaden, 117-142, 2019
Archaeology. Journal of the Iranian Center for Archeological Research, Vol. 2.2, 2019
The SOJAS (South-of-Jiroft Archaeological Survey) project aims at investigating the relations bet... more The SOJAS (South-of-Jiroft Archaeological Survey) project aims at investigating the relations between the Jiroft region and the shores of the Persian Gulf by investigating settlements, routes, and natural resources in the plains und valleys south of Jiroft, within the limits of the province of Kerman. 209 archaeological sites have been discovered in the seasons of 2015–2018, located in several survey zones, among which the plains of Boluk and Faryab are the most prominent. Furthermore, the Varamin strip of the Middle Halil Rud Valley and the Lower Halil Rud Valley proved to be important settlement zones. Large-scale occupation in the region starts in the Early and Middle Chalcolithic periods, with a first marked increase in the Late Chalcolithic. During the Early Bronze Age, dense settlement patterns develop in nearly all parts of the region. Several sites seem to be related to the procurement and exchange of chlorite artefacts. Of special importance is a probable miner’s site within the Bagh-e Borj Mountains, an area where natural chlorite outcrops are most abundant. The end of the Early Bronze Age is characterized by a collapse of settlement systems. Only very few sites exist during the 2nd millennium and the first half of the 1st millennium BC. A full-scale re-occupation of the whole region takes place during the Achaemenid period. This trend continues into the Arsacid period, when the number of sites was doubled compared to the previous period. This is the period with the largest number of sites in the region. Further continuity of dense occupation can be witnessed during the Sasanian and the Early Islamic to Seljuk periods. After the Seljuk period, a second settlement collapse takes place, which left the region only sparsely occupied until modern times, when cities and villages in the region expanded as a consequence of agricultural intensification.
Journal of Field Archaeology 43:4, 269-283, 2018
in: Bradbury, J., & Scarre, C. (ed). Engaging with the Dead: exploring changing human beliefs about death, mortality and the human body, Oxbow Books, Oxford – Philadelphia, 149-162., 2017
Peter Pfälzner and Nader A. Soleimani, AMIT 47, 2017
The University of Tübingen and ICAR (Tehran, Iran) jointly initiated a new archaeological project... more The University of Tübingen and ICAR (Tehran, Iran) jointly initiated a new archaeological project in the Jiroft Region of South-Eastern Iran in 2015. A systematic archaeological, geographical and geological survey is carried out in a vast region to the south of Jiroft, comprising the Halil Rud Basin and several plains to the south of it. Settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Islamic periods and natural deposits of stone materials, such as chlorite and diorite, are a particular focus of the project. The results will contribute to a better understanding of interregional exchange and communication routes between the Halil Rud Basin and neighbouring regions, especially during the Bronze Age.
ZOrA 10, 2017
The two settlements of Muqable I and III, located 5 km to the south-east of Bassetki in the Dohuk... more The two settlements of Muqable I and III, located 5 km to the south-east of Bassetki in the Dohuk province of Iraq-Kurdistan, are being excavated since 2015 in the frame of the cooperation project KUGAMID of the University of Tübingen and die Directorate of Antiquities at Dohuk. The aim of the excavations is, on the one hand, to investigate the pre-stages in the Late Chalcolithic period of the Northern Mesopotamian urbanisation and, on the other hand, to study a subordinate settlement in the environs of a Bronze Age urban centre. During the first season of 2015, the stratigraphy of both sites could be determined, and well-dated chronological-stratigraphic units of the Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age could be defined on the basis of pottery repertories and connected C14 datings, in one instance complemented by a group of sealings of the Ninevite V period. They are important components of a detailed chronology of the region in the mentioned periods.
ZOrA 10, 2017
The University of Tübingen and the Directorate of Antiquities Dohuk launched excavations in the f... more The University of Tübingen and the Directorate of Antiquities Dohuk launched excavations in the frame of a joint project at the Bronze Age urban site of Bassetki, which is famous for the accidental discovery of the copper basis of the Akkadian ruler Naram-Sin. The major aim of the excavations is to investigate the importance and urban development of the site from the Early through the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. During the first two seasons of 2015 and 2016 the stratigraphy and chronology of the upper town were explored, as well as the settlement organisation of the extended lower town, and an extra-urban area to the south of the city, where a street and several cremation burials of the Middle Bronze Age were found.
ORIENTAL INSTITUTE SEMINARS • NUMBER 11, 2017
How to Cope with Death: Mourning and Funerary Practices in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the International Workshop Firenze 2013, ed. by Candida Felli, 2016
In this article, it will be attempted to elaborate on a differentiation between the dead and the... more In this article, it will be attempted to elaborate on a differentiation between the dead
and the ancestors from a theoretical point of view, and, upon this basis, with regard to royal contexts of the 2nd millennium BC in ancient Syria. The main questions to be discussed in this respect are the following: when does a dead person become an ancestor? And how is this reflected in funerary rituals and grave contexts? And finally, can we detect the difference archaeologically?
D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque médiévale, Actes du colloque international tenu les 13 et 14 décembre 2012 à Nanterre (MAE) et à Paris (INHA), Syria Supplément IV (Beyrouth 2016), 159-182., 2016
in: D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque m... more in: D. Parayre (ed.), Le fleuve rebelle Géographie historique du moyen Oronte d’Ebla à l’époque médiévale.
The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions, ed. by K. Kopanias and J. MacGinnis, Jun 2016
The first season of the Tübingen EHAS project in 2013 has proven the enormous archaeological pot... more The first season of the Tübingen EHAS project in
2013 has proven the enormous archaeological potential
of the survey region with its interesting and diverse
geographic zones. The preliminary data on settlement
patterns suggest a first settlement in the Neolithic
period, a continuous albeit sparse occupation in the
Chalcolithic, an intensive Early Bronze Age occupation,
continuous settlement during the Middle and Late
Bronze Age, the latter represented by both the Mittani
and the Middle Assyrian pottery tradition, and a slight
decline of settlement intensity during the Iron Age.
The later periods, from Hellenistic through Parthian
and Sassanian to the Islamic periods, are equally well
attested. Future field-work will be aimed at intensifying
the archaeological survey in Zones B and C and also
in the other survey areas (Zones A, D-E). The GIS
mapping of the settlement system, as well as the
identification of available resources, ecological factors
and communication routes will hopefully contribute to a
better understanding of the impact of the Mesopotamian
empires upon the local cultures and societies through
time.