Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1705115 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Olivier Nieuwenhuyse |
| PRENOMES | Olivier |
| SOBRENOME | Nieuwenhuyse |
| ASSINATURA | NIEUWENHUYSE O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leiden University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Halaf Pottery in the East End
The Shahrizor Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan) is located in the most eastern distribution of Halaf pottery in the Late Neolithic period. Re-excavations at Tell Begum in 2013 demonstrated that Halaf pottery in this plain had unique local attributes distinguished from those of “classic” Halaf pottery found in Upper Mesopotamia. This paper presents the radiocarbon dates of the Halaf layer at Tell Begum and compares these dates and the ceramic styles with th…
Investigating Late Neolithic ceramics in the northern Levant
This paper presents a review of the ceramic investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Shir. Situated in Western Syria the site occupies a central position in the so-called ‘Levantine corridor’, which linked the southern Levant, Central Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia in the Neolithic. The ceramic sequence covers a period of several centuries between c. 7000 and 6450 cal BC. The pottery analysis combined bulk processing in the field and archaeo…
From the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Shahrizor Plain is an intermontane valley in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Ongoing archaeological investigations are gradually revealing the local Prehistory of this region. For the Late Neolithic period (7th-6th millennia BC), however, archaeologists have struggled to explain a large apparent hiatus in settlement observed between the end of 7th and the mid-6th millennium BC. Following the traditional chronology currently ava…
The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focusing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however, there has been a tremendous increase in research in various parts of West Asia focusing explicitly on this theme. It has generally become accepted t…
Revisiting Tell Begum
Tell Begum was previously explored by Iraqi archaeologists in the 1960s when excavations revealed a multi-period site. Among the key finds were Halaf period remains that are relatively rare in the region of the Shahrizor plain and included polychrome ceramics suggesting a local variation of the Halaf culture. Recent investigations and excavations in 2011 and 2013 revealed a 5 hectare site inhabited during the Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, and …
Tracing pottery use and the emergence of secondary product exploitation through lipid residue analysis at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria)
New Investigations in the Environment, History, and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks
Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region's social and socio-ecological development. This paper summarises two seasons of work by researchers from German, British, Dutch, and Iraqi-Kurdish institutions working in the survey region. Palaeoenv…
The cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic Northern Levant
In this paper we present the first, still preliminary, results of our study of the so-called cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic of the Northern Levant. We focus on the Late Neolithic key site of Shir, Hama Province, Syria, a joint project of the Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de la Syrie and the German Archaeological Institute at Damascus (DAI). The pottery is studied by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse on the behalf of the DAI. …
A Late Neolithic “fishing net” from Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
In this paper we present a textile imprint observed on a prehistoric (Late Neolithic) sherd recovered from the site of Bestansur, Northern Iraq. Dated to ca 6500-6200 cal. BC, this represents one of the earliest textile imprints in the region. We discuss the find and the type of textile. Rather tentatively we suggest it may have been used as a “ fishing net
Not so coarse, nor always plain - the earliest pottery of Syria
The site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria offers a superb stratified sequence passing from the aceramic (pre-pottery) to pottery-using Neolithic around 7000 BC. Surprisingly the first pottery arrives fully developed with mineral tempering, burnishing and stripey decoration in painted slip. The expected, more experimental-looking, plant-tempered coarse wares shaped by baskets arrive about 300 years later. Did the first ceramic impetus come from elsewhe…
Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding
Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of Northern Syria
The 2001–2003 excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria have provided important new information on the nature and development of the Pottery Neolithic settlement at the site in the seventh and sixth millennia B.C. The fieldwork has produced a long sequence of small and continually shifting occupations, in the order of 0.5–1.0 ha, each with rich assemblages of very early ceramics and other artifacts. There is proof for localized abandonment…
The Proto-Halaf period in Syria. New sites, new data
This paper intends to give a brief factual account of some of the new fieldwork projects in Syria that are now documenting a short transitional stage between the Pre-Halafand the Early Halaf. This stage, which for present purposes we have termed Proto-Halaf (about 6 100-5 950 cal. ВС), appears to have been a crucial time, during which the basis was laid for the subsequent Halaf phenomenon. Evidence gathered so far suggests that the transition fro…
Making Samarra Fine Ware - Technological Observations on Ceramics from Tell Baghouz (Syria)
Les chercheurs travaillant sur le Néolithique récent au Proche-Orient sont de plus en plus attirés par l'identification et la définition de traditions céramiques Hassuna, Samarra et Halaf. Les definitions culturelles dérivant de fouilles pionnières conduites il y a plusieurs décennies, nous manquons souvent des éléments permettant de comprendre comment certaines catégories de pots ont été façonnées. Et pourtant une telle approche est indispensabl…
Following the Earliest Halaf
Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of Northern Syria
The 2001–2003 excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria have provided important new information on the nature and development of the Pottery Neolithic settlement at the site in the seventh and sixth millennia B.C. The fieldwork has produced a long sequence of small and continually shifting occupations, in the order of 0.5–1.0 ha, each with rich assemblages of very early ceramics and other artifacts. There is proof for localized abandonment…
Tracing pottery use and the emergence of secondary product exploitation through lipid residue analysis at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria)
Not so coarse, nor always plain - the earliest pottery of Syria
The site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria offers a superb stratified sequence passing from the aceramic (pre-pottery) to pottery-using Neolithic around 7000 BC. Surprisingly the first pottery arrives fully developed with mineral tempering, burnishing and stripey decoration in painted slip. The expected, more experimental-looking, plant-tempered coarse wares shaped by baskets arrive about 300 years later. Did the first ceramic impetus come from elsewhe…
The Proto-Halaf period in Syria. New sites, new data
This paper intends to give a brief factual account of some of the new fieldwork projects in Syria that are now documenting a short transitional stage between the Pre-Halafand the Early Halaf. This stage, which for present purposes we have termed Proto-Halaf (about 6 100-5 950 cal. ВС), appears to have been a crucial time, during which the basis was laid for the subsequent Halaf phenomenon. Evidence gathered so far suggests that the transition fro…
From the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Shahrizor Plain is an intermontane valley in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Ongoing archaeological investigations are gradually revealing the local Prehistory of this region. For the Late Neolithic period (7th-6th millennia BC), however, archaeologists have struggled to explain a large apparent hiatus in settlement observed between the end of 7th and the mid-6th millennium BC. Following the traditional chronology currently ava…
The cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic Northern Levant
In this paper we present the first, still preliminary, results of our study of the so-called cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic of the Northern Levant. We focus on the Late Neolithic key site of Shir, Hama Province, Syria, a joint project of the Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de la Syrie and the German Archaeological Institute at Damascus (DAI). The pottery is studied by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse on the behalf of the DAI. …
A Late Neolithic “fishing net” from Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
In this paper we present a textile imprint observed on a prehistoric (Late Neolithic) sherd recovered from the site of Bestansur, Northern Iraq. Dated to ca 6500-6200 cal. BC, this represents one of the earliest textile imprints in the region. We discuss the find and the type of textile. Rather tentatively we suggest it may have been used as a “ fishing net
Making Samarra Fine Ware - Technological Observations on Ceramics from Tell Baghouz (Syria)
Les chercheurs travaillant sur le Néolithique récent au Proche-Orient sont de plus en plus attirés par l'identification et la définition de traditions céramiques Hassuna, Samarra et Halaf. Les definitions culturelles dérivant de fouilles pionnières conduites il y a plusieurs décennies, nous manquons souvent des éléments permettant de comprendre comment certaines catégories de pots ont été façonnées. Et pourtant une telle approche est indispensabl…
Following the Earliest Halaf
Making Samarra Fine Ware - Technological Observations on Ceramics from Tell Baghouz (Syria)
Les chercheurs travaillant sur le Néolithique récent au Proche-Orient sont de plus en plus attirés par l'identification et la définition de traditions céramiques Hassuna, Samarra et Halaf. Les definitions culturelles dérivant de fouilles pionnières conduites il y a plusieurs décennies, nous manquons souvent des éléments permettant de comprendre comment certaines catégories de pots ont été façonnées. Et pourtant une telle approche est indispensabl…
The Proto-Halaf period in Syria. New sites, new data
This paper intends to give a brief factual account of some of the new fieldwork projects in Syria that are now documenting a short transitional stage between the Pre-Halafand the Early Halaf. This stage, which for present purposes we have termed Proto-Halaf (about 6 100-5 950 cal. ВС), appears to have been a crucial time, during which the basis was laid for the subsequent Halaf phenomenon. Evidence gathered so far suggests that the transition fro…
Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of Northern Syria
The 2001–2003 excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria have provided important new information on the nature and development of the Pottery Neolithic settlement at the site in the seventh and sixth millennia B.C. The fieldwork has produced a long sequence of small and continually shifting occupations, in the order of 0.5–1.0 ha, each with rich assemblages of very early ceramics and other artifacts. There is proof for localized abandonment…
Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding
Not so coarse, nor always plain - the earliest pottery of Syria
The site of Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria offers a superb stratified sequence passing from the aceramic (pre-pottery) to pottery-using Neolithic around 7000 BC. Surprisingly the first pottery arrives fully developed with mineral tempering, burnishing and stripey decoration in painted slip. The expected, more experimental-looking, plant-tempered coarse wares shaped by baskets arrive about 300 years later. Did the first ceramic impetus come from elsewhe…
New Investigations in the Environment, History, and Archaeology of the Iraqi Hilly Flanks
Recent palaeoenvironmental, historical, and archaeological investigations, primarily consisting of site reconnaissance, in the Shahrizor region within the province of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan are bringing to light new information on the region's social and socio-ecological development. This paper summarises two seasons of work by researchers from German, British, Dutch, and Iraqi-Kurdish institutions working in the survey region. Palaeoenv…
The cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic Northern Levant
In this paper we present the first, still preliminary, results of our study of the so-called cord-impressed pottery from the Late Neolithic of the Northern Levant. We focus on the Late Neolithic key site of Shir, Hama Province, Syria, a joint project of the Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de la Syrie and the German Archaeological Institute at Damascus (DAI). The pottery is studied by Olivier Nieuwenhuyse on the behalf of the DAI. …
A Late Neolithic “fishing net” from Kurdistan, Northern Iraq
In this paper we present a textile imprint observed on a prehistoric (Late Neolithic) sherd recovered from the site of Bestansur, Northern Iraq. Dated to ca 6500-6200 cal. BC, this represents one of the earliest textile imprints in the region. We discuss the find and the type of textile. Rather tentatively we suggest it may have been used as a “ fishing net
Tracing pottery use and the emergence of secondary product exploitation through lipid residue analysis at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria)
Revisiting Tell Begum
Tell Begum was previously explored by Iraqi archaeologists in the 1960s when excavations revealed a multi-period site. Among the key finds were Halaf period remains that are relatively rare in the region of the Shahrizor plain and included polychrome ceramics suggesting a local variation of the Halaf culture. Recent investigations and excavations in 2011 and 2013 revealed a 5 hectare site inhabited during the Halaf, Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, and …
The Emergence of Pottery in West Asia
Over the past fifty years or so early pottery complexes in the wider region of West Asia have hardly ever been investigated in their own right. Early ceramics have often been unexpected by-products of projects focusing upon much earlier aceramic or later prehistoric periods. In recent years, however, there has been a tremendous increase in research in various parts of West Asia focusing explicitly on this theme. It has generally become accepted t…
From the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Shahrizor Plain is an intermontane valley in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Ongoing archaeological investigations are gradually revealing the local Prehistory of this region. For the Late Neolithic period (7th-6th millennia BC), however, archaeologists have struggled to explain a large apparent hiatus in settlement observed between the end of 7th and the mid-6th millennium BC. Following the traditional chronology currently ava…
Investigating Late Neolithic ceramics in the northern Levant
This paper presents a review of the ceramic investigations at the Late Neolithic site of Shir. Situated in Western Syria the site occupies a central position in the so-called ‘Levantine corridor’, which linked the southern Levant, Central Anatolia, and Upper Mesopotamia in the Neolithic. The ceramic sequence covers a period of several centuries between c. 7000 and 6450 cal BC. The pottery analysis combined bulk processing in the field and archaeo…
Halaf Pottery in the East End
The Shahrizor Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan) is located in the most eastern distribution of Halaf pottery in the Late Neolithic period. Re-excavations at Tell Begum in 2013 demonstrated that Halaf pottery in this plain had unique local attributes distinguished from those of “classic” Halaf pottery found in Upper Mesopotamia. This paper presents the radiocarbon dates of the Halaf layer at Tell Begum and compares these dates and the ceramic styles with th…
Archaeology (13 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 obras) · History (11 obras) · Ancient history (10 obras) · Pottery (8 obras) · History (6 obras) · Ancient Near East History (5 obras) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 obras) · Art (4 obras)