These conference proceedings contain a preface, the programme, 17 papers, and a list of authors. The contributions deal with key issues of LBA pottery, the relationship between practice and explanatory frameworks of ceramic studies, archaeometry and Near Eastern pottery, LBA ceramics from Emar, Syria, LBA pottery of the “Weststadt” of Tell Bazi, Syria, LBA pottery at Tell Mardikh/Ebla, Syria, LBA pottery production in Tell Afis, Syria, LBA pottery from Tell Kazel, Syria, LBA pottery from the Middle Orontes Survey, Syria, new results on LBA pottery from Kamid el-Loz, Lebanon, stratigraphy, chronology, and LBA ceramics in and around Terqa, Syria, the Tell Barri sequence of LBA levels, Syria, evidence from Ashur and Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Iraq, for pottery traditions from the Mittanian to the Early Neo-Assyrian Period, LBA pottery from Nemrik, Iraq, characteristics of Middle Babylonian pottery production in contrast to Old Babylonian pottery, qualitative changes in the mass production of knobbed beakers (“Knopfbecher”) in the LBA at Elam, Iran, as well as pottery groups of the late 2nd/early 1st millennia B.C. in Northwest Arabia and new evidence from excavations at Tayma, Saudi Arabia.
Marta Luciani
Handwerk Keramik Siedlungsarchäologie Stratigraphie