Pastoral Nomads of the 2nd and 3rd Millennia A.D. on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey: The Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Field Archaeology
- Vol. 34 (1), 37-56
- https://doi.org/10.1179/009346909791071087
Abstract
The importance of non-sedentary pastoralist groups in the social and political history of Mesopotamia has long been appreciated from the prespective of ancient texts and ethnohistorical sources, but empirical evidence from archaeology has been lacking. In two field seasons, the Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey (HMTS) in Diyarbakur province, southeastern Turkey, has recovered a variety of sites and landscape features associated with pastoral nonmadic occupation during the last two millennia and possibly earlier. In doing so, we targeted non-alluvial areas where features preservation was likely, and employed pedestrian survey methods more typical of Mediterranean fieldwork. If Mesopotamian archaeology is to investigate the landscapes of pastoral nomads, it must incorporate intensive survey methods and expand coverage beyond alluvial environments.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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