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INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
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Título:
Tell el-Ghaba III. A Third Intermediate-Early Saite Period Site
Autor/es:
LUPO, SILVIA EDITORA
Editorial:
Archaeopress
Referencias:
Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2015 p. 438
ISSN:
978 1 4073 1417 4
Resumen:
Tellel-Ghaba III is divided intoan Introduction and four main sections. In the Introduction, Silvia Lupo and Claudia Kohen provide an overview ofprevious studies on the region, the background of Tell el-Ghaba project and asynopsis of results of the investigations, both in and outside this volume, inorder to trace the cultural history of the site and its integration to aregional level. PartI containsenvironmental and physical studies. Eduardo Crivelli Montero describes theevolution of the environment and reconstructs the setting at the time when thesite was active. There are two studies on faunal remains: the first one byAlberto L. Cione, Leandro Pérez and Cristina Bacquerisse that focuses on thepresence of six Monetariaannulus specimens,possibly worn as amulets, which might have reached the site as trade items, andthe second one by A.L.Cione and Marcelo de la Fuente that reports the presenceof Crocodylusand freshwater turtles andsummarizes Cione´s previous research on marine fishes at the site. PartII is devoted tofieldwork. E. Crivelli Montero describes the field recording system he adoptedfor this project, inspired in various sources. In the following chapter heprovides a detailed account of the excavations carried out under his directionin Areas I, II and VI between 1995 and 1999, and interprets certainarchitectural features. Unfortunately, activities at the site are currentlyinterrupted; for security purposes, the Egyptian military officers and theSupreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) have stopped granting permits for workingon the archaeological sites of northern Sinai. In 2010, under the direction of Adriana ChauvinGrandela, excavations were resumed. Her chapter describes the excavationsconducted in Area VIII (adjacent to Area I), which allowed for a betterunderstanding of the stratigraphic sequence in this central-south sector of thetell. Tomasz Herbich gives a detailed account of thegeomagnetic survey he carried out with his team in May 2010, which comprisedmost of the tell (Areas I, II, V, VI, VII and VIII). The survey was conductedin the frame of a joint project between the Argentine Archaeological Missionand the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw.It provided relevant data on the settlement?s urban layout and the limits ofthe site. PartIII is dedicated tothe study of the pottery. María Beatriz Cremonte reviews and completes previousanalyses of the pottery fabrics of Tell el-Ghaba and presents an updatedclassification of Egyptian (Nile and Marl clays) and imported fabrics from theEastern Mediterranean. S. Lupo introduces for the first time a completetypology of the Egyptian pottery in Nile and Marl clays recovered from the siteand C. Kohen presents a typology of the imported vessels. Based on thestratigaphic sequence and the study of pottery types, they establish possiblecorrelations between some features of the excavated areas and refer to thechronological frame of the site, where no meaningful epigraphic material wasfound. Eva Calomino, through the analysis of the local pottery assemblage,hypothesizes about its possible functions and associated activities. Part IV is committed to the study of other finds. A. ChauvinGrandela analyses the stone artefacts and their function. In turn, C.Bacquerisse presents an annotated catalogue of small finds and S. Lupo one ofscarabs. Graciela Arbolave, who was in charge of the conservation tasks,presents a report on the activities she performed.