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Post date: Oct 10, 2015 9:31:37 AM
The international symposium Advances in Geoarchaeological Approaches to Ancient Mesopotamia: Tablets, Paleogeography and Microfossils will be held at the Saitama University Tokyo Station Collage, Tokyo on November 14, 2015. Please see http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/geoarchaeology/ for the detail.
Programme
Programme
9:30-10:00
Chieko E. Watanabe & Mark Altaweel: Welcome & Opening Remarks
Chieko E. Watanabe: Introduction
Session 1: Tablets 10:00 - 12:30
Jonathan Taylor: Clay tablets as a craftman's product
Gebhard Selz: Quarrying for clay according to textual sources
Mark Altaweel: PXRF results from clay objects in Chicago and Suleymaniyah
Ryo Anma et al.: Geochemical studies on clay tablets and sediments from Mesopotamia
Lunch
Session 2: Microfossils 14:00 – 15:00
Anke Marsh: Unearthing the past: using sediments and microfossils to reconstruct Near Eastern palaeoenvironments
Akihiro Tsuji: Microfossil analysis on clay tablets
Session 3: Salt damage 15:00 - 16:00
Gebhard Selz & Keisuke Takai: On salinity, irrigation, water management in the Early Dynastic Period: A philological and historic-cultural approach
Chiaki T. Oguchi: Weatherning of mud and soft rock materials at some archaeological sites
Break
Session 4: palaeogeography 16:15 - 17:15
Takashi Oguchi et al.: Geomorphological and GIS applications to Middle Eastern archaeology
Jaafar H. Jotheri: Geoarchaeological understanding of palaeochannel in the Southern Mesopotamia
Closing remarks 17:45 - 17:55
Contact: Watanabe Lab, Osaka Gakuin University ecohistory"at"ogu.ac.jp
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