Kamal Badreshany
Biographic Data
| ID | 297680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamal Badreshany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Badreshany |
| SIGNATURE | BADRESHANY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8799-7234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dynamism, use and reuse at an Irish portal tomb: Excavations at Tirnony, Maghera, Co. Derry/Londonderry
Excavations of a portal tomb at Tirnony, Co. Derry/Londonderry in 2010 and 2011 revealed a surprisingly dynamic monument with evidence for Neolithic ritual. The excavation uncovered pre-tomb pits, a disturbed stone floor, and primary tomb deposits, containing Neolithic pottery, flint tools, struck quartz and possible hammer-stones. There were indications of the sequence of construction of the elements of the tomb, and of interruptions, of unquant…
Dynamism, use and reuse at an Irish portal tomb: Excavations at Tirnony, Maghera, Co. Derry/ Londonderry
Excavations of a portal tomb at Tirnony, Co. Derry/Londonderry in 2010 and 2011 revealed a surprisingly dynamic monument with evidence for Neolithic ritual. The excavation uncovered pre-tomb pits, a disturbed stone floor, and primary tomb deposits, containing Neolithic pottery, flint tools, struck quartz and possible hammer-stones. There were indications of the sequence of construction of the elements of the tomb, and of interruptions, of unquant…
From Land's End to the Levant: Did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean
Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France can now be provenanced to tin ores in south-west Britain. These exceptionally rich and accessible ores played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC. The authors’ application of a novel combination of three independ…
Accessory minerals: A Provenancing Tool for Steatite Quarries
Steatite has been a widely traded material across a range of archaeological contexts. Yet, challenges inherent to determining its provenance limits our understanding of the networks and mechanisms of its exchange. We present a robust new accessory mineral provenancing “fingerprint” method based their specific growth history. We use laser‐ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to produce detailed trace‐element maps of mi…
Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations
Scents of Home: Phoenician Oil Bottles from Motya
Olfactory cultures shape how societies perceive, value, and use scents in daily life, ritual, and social practice, embedding specific smells within collective identity. Mobility exposes these cultures to new environments, where scents may act as markers of heritage and belonging for migrants while also prompting diverse reactions—ranging from appreciation to disruption—within host or newly established communities. The Iron Age Mediterranean, mark…
Archaeometric characterization of pottery from the Iron Age hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain)
This paper presents the results of an archaeometric analysis of pre-Roman and Roman ceramics from the Vaccean Iron Age hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain). The study assesses degrees of romanization and hybridization by investigating changes in local ceramic production and the dissemination of new technologies with the arrival of Roman rule. Thin-section petrography, XRD, and geochemical analyses (using XRF) have been utilised on a selection o…
The characterisation of ceramic production from the central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age
A recent petrographic study of ceramic jars from Giza imported into Egypt during the 4th Dynasty of the Pyramid Age (c. 2613–2494 BCE) identified the original production zone as the Lebanese coast generally between Beirut and Tripoli, including the region of Byblos. The jars and their contents were imported to Egypt by maritime trade expeditions conducted at the behest of the Egyptian state. This study analyses a selection of these ceramic sample…
A New Method for the Large-Scale Documentation of Pottery Sherds Through Simultaneous Multiple 3D Model Capture Using Structure from Motion: Phoenician Carinated-Shoulder Amphorae from Tell el-Burak (…
This paper presents a new rapid, low-cost method for the large-scale documentation of pottery sherds through simultaneous multiple 3D model capture using Structure from Motion (SfM). The method has great potential to enhance and replace time-consuming and expensive conventional approaches for pottery documentation, i.e., 2D photographs and drawing on paper with subsequent digitization of the drawings. To showcase the method’s effectiveness and ap…
Ceramic studies and petrographic analysis in Levantine archaeology, the limitations of current approaches
By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we are interested in using ceramic data to address questions that extend beyond single-site studies, we pay particular attention to the information potential offered by the large-scale integration of cer…
The development of integrated regional economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: New evidence from ‘Combed Ware’ jars
This paper uses new petrographic and geochemical data (ICP-AES and -MS analyses) taken from samples of ‘Combed Ware’ jars occurring at sites on the Lebanese coast, the Bekaa Valley, the Orontes Valley around Homs and the North Jordan Valley, to investigate the production and distribution of these vessels in the Levant during the Early Bronze Age. The evidence points to the existence of integrated regional interaction zones that can be identified …
Drinking on the periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend goblets in their regional and archaeometric context
This paper explores the late 3rd millennium BC goblet corpus from Tell Nebi Mend in the upper Orontes Valley, Syria, by comparing the form, size, petrographic and chemical composition of these drinking vessels. The available evidence suggests that Tell Nebi Mend belongs to its own distinct ceramic-culture province, which shares a greater affinity with the Beqa‘ Valley and the Black Wheel-made Ware of the southern Levant than with the traditional …
Ceramics, society and economy in the northern Levant
One of the primary aims of the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is to create a framework for the int...
Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: A multi-disciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak
Aaron Schmitt*a http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8997-1898, Kamal Badreshanyb http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-7234, Evgenia Tachatoua http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-6197 & Hélène Saderca Institute of Ancient Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germanyb Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UKc Department of History and Archaeology, American University Beirut, Lebanon.Aaron Schmitt (correspon…
SEM-EDS analysis of residues from pottery from Wade Street, Bristol
Matching sherds to vessels through ceramic petrography: An Early Neolithic Iberian case study
Pottery Production on the Northern Lebanese Coast during the Early Bronze Age II—III: The Petrographic Analysis of the Ceramics from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Lying on the Lebanese coast approximately 22 km north of Byblos (60 km north of Beirut), the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida was discovered in the spring of 2004. The recent extraction of large quantities of soil created extensive archaeological sections, which were the focus of "rescue" investigations conducted by the American University of Beirut (AUB) during two seasons in the summers of 2004 and 2005. Over 4,000 ceramic sherds …
Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations
Matching sherds to vessels through ceramic petrography: An Early Neolithic Iberian case study
From Land's End to the Levant: Did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean
Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France can now be provenanced to tin ores in south-west Britain. These exceptionally rich and accessible ores played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC. The authors’ application of a novel combination of three independ…
Accessory minerals: A Provenancing Tool for Steatite Quarries
Steatite has been a widely traded material across a range of archaeological contexts. Yet, challenges inherent to determining its provenance limits our understanding of the networks and mechanisms of its exchange. We present a robust new accessory mineral provenancing “fingerprint” method based their specific growth history. We use laser‐ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to produce detailed trace‐element maps of mi…
A New Method for the Large-Scale Documentation of Pottery Sherds Through Simultaneous Multiple 3D Model Capture Using Structure from Motion: Phoenician Carinated-Shoulder Amphorae from Tell el-Burak (…
This paper presents a new rapid, low-cost method for the large-scale documentation of pottery sherds through simultaneous multiple 3D model capture using Structure from Motion (SfM). The method has great potential to enhance and replace time-consuming and expensive conventional approaches for pottery documentation, i.e., 2D photographs and drawing on paper with subsequent digitization of the drawings. To showcase the method’s effectiveness and ap…
Pottery Production on the Northern Lebanese Coast during the Early Bronze Age II—III: The Petrographic Analysis of the Ceramics from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Lying on the Lebanese coast approximately 22 km north of Byblos (60 km north of Beirut), the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida was discovered in the spring of 2004. The recent extraction of large quantities of soil created extensive archaeological sections, which were the focus of "rescue" investigations conducted by the American University of Beirut (AUB) during two seasons in the summers of 2004 and 2005. Over 4,000 ceramic sherds …
Matching sherds to vessels through ceramic petrography: An Early Neolithic Iberian case study
SEM-EDS analysis of residues from pottery from Wade Street, Bristol
Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: A multi-disciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak
Aaron Schmitt*a http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8997-1898, Kamal Badreshanyb http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-7234, Evgenia Tachatoua http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6596-6197 & Hélène Saderca Institute of Ancient Studies, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germanyb Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham, UKc Department of History and Archaeology, American University Beirut, Lebanon.Aaron Schmitt (correspon…
Ceramic studies and petrographic analysis in Levantine archaeology, the limitations of current approaches
By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we are interested in using ceramic data to address questions that extend beyond single-site studies, we pay particular attention to the information potential offered by the large-scale integration of cer…
The development of integrated regional economies in the Early Bronze Age Levant: New evidence from ‘Combed Ware’ jars
This paper uses new petrographic and geochemical data (ICP-AES and -MS analyses) taken from samples of ‘Combed Ware’ jars occurring at sites on the Lebanese coast, the Bekaa Valley, the Orontes Valley around Homs and the North Jordan Valley, to investigate the production and distribution of these vessels in the Levant during the Early Bronze Age. The evidence points to the existence of integrated regional interaction zones that can be identified …
Drinking on the periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend goblets in their regional and archaeometric context
This paper explores the late 3rd millennium BC goblet corpus from Tell Nebi Mend in the upper Orontes Valley, Syria, by comparing the form, size, petrographic and chemical composition of these drinking vessels. The available evidence suggests that Tell Nebi Mend belongs to its own distinct ceramic-culture province, which shares a greater affinity with the Beqa‘ Valley and the Black Wheel-made Ware of the southern Levant than with the traditional …
Ceramics, society and economy in the northern Levant
One of the primary aims of the Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is to create a framework for the int...
Archaeometric characterization of pottery from the Iron Age hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain)
This paper presents the results of an archaeometric analysis of pre-Roman and Roman ceramics from the Vaccean Iron Age hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain). The study assesses degrees of romanization and hybridization by investigating changes in local ceramic production and the dissemination of new technologies with the arrival of Roman rule. Thin-section petrography, XRD, and geochemical analyses (using XRF) have been utilised on a selection o…
The characterisation of ceramic production from the central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age
A recent petrographic study of ceramic jars from Giza imported into Egypt during the 4th Dynasty of the Pyramid Age (c. 2613–2494 BCE) identified the original production zone as the Lebanese coast generally between Beirut and Tripoli, including the region of Byblos. The jars and their contents were imported to Egypt by maritime trade expeditions conducted at the behest of the Egyptian state. This study analyses a selection of these ceramic sample…
A New Method for the Large-Scale Documentation of Pottery Sherds Through Simultaneous Multiple 3D Model Capture Using Structure from Motion: Phoenician Carinated-Shoulder Amphorae from Tell el-Burak (…
This paper presents a new rapid, low-cost method for the large-scale documentation of pottery sherds through simultaneous multiple 3D model capture using Structure from Motion (SfM). The method has great potential to enhance and replace time-consuming and expensive conventional approaches for pottery documentation, i.e., 2D photographs and drawing on paper with subsequent digitization of the drawings. To showcase the method’s effectiveness and ap…
Dynamism, use and reuse at an Irish portal tomb: Excavations at Tirnony, Maghera, Co. Derry/Londonderry
Excavations of a portal tomb at Tirnony, Co. Derry/Londonderry in 2010 and 2011 revealed a surprisingly dynamic monument with evidence for Neolithic ritual. The excavation uncovered pre-tomb pits, a disturbed stone floor, and primary tomb deposits, containing Neolithic pottery, flint tools, struck quartz and possible hammer-stones. There were indications of the sequence of construction of the elements of the tomb, and of interruptions, of unquant…
Dynamism, use and reuse at an Irish portal tomb: Excavations at Tirnony, Maghera, Co. Derry/ Londonderry
Excavations of a portal tomb at Tirnony, Co. Derry/Londonderry in 2010 and 2011 revealed a surprisingly dynamic monument with evidence for Neolithic ritual. The excavation uncovered pre-tomb pits, a disturbed stone floor, and primary tomb deposits, containing Neolithic pottery, flint tools, struck quartz and possible hammer-stones. There were indications of the sequence of construction of the elements of the tomb, and of interruptions, of unquant…
From Land's End to the Levant: Did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean
Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France can now be provenanced to tin ores in south-west Britain. These exceptionally rich and accessible ores played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC. The authors’ application of a novel combination of three independ…
Accessory minerals: A Provenancing Tool for Steatite Quarries
Steatite has been a widely traded material across a range of archaeological contexts. Yet, challenges inherent to determining its provenance limits our understanding of the networks and mechanisms of its exchange. We present a robust new accessory mineral provenancing “fingerprint” method based their specific growth history. We use laser‐ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to produce detailed trace‐element maps of mi…
Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations
Scents of Home: Phoenician Oil Bottles from Motya
Olfactory cultures shape how societies perceive, value, and use scents in daily life, ritual, and social practice, embedding specific smells within collective identity. Mobility exposes these cultures to new environments, where scents may act as markers of heritage and belonging for migrants while also prompting diverse reactions—ranging from appreciation to disruption—within host or newly established communities. The Iron Age Mediterranean, mark…
Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · History (10 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Bronze Age (8 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (7 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (6 works) · Petrography (6 works)