Hermann Genz
Biographic Data
| ID | 341478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hermann Genz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hermann |
| FAMILY NAME | Genz |
| SIGNATURE | GENZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2
Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates: From Chalcolithic Village to Assyrian Provincial Capital
Recent Early Bronze Age Glyptic Finds from Lebanon: The Evidence from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
While Early Bronze Age glyptic finds from the southern Levant as well as from Syria have received considerable attention in the scholarly literature, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the glyptic material from Lebanon. For a long time, Byblos was the only site with a considerable number of Early Bronze Age glyptic finds, but the often unclear stratigraphic and contextual situation of the material hugely diminished its scientific value. …
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
Between Land and Sea: An Airborne LiDAR Field Survey to Detect Ancient Sites in the Chekka Region/Lebanon Using Spatial Analyses
The interdisciplinary project “Between Land and Sea” combines geological, geomorphological and paleo-environmental approaches to identify archaeological remains of the Chekka region (Lebanon). In order to record the topography of this area, the first ever scientific airborne LiDAR data acquisition in Lebanon was conducted in autumn 2018. This work describes not only the acquisition and processing of the LiDAR data, but also the attempt to derive …
Simple bone tools from Early Bronze Age Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon): A household approach
Despite their relatively limited scale, the excavations conducted at the site of Tell Fadous Kfarabida on the Lebanese coast between 2004 and 2015 have provided a large and surprisingly varied assemblage of objects made out bone and related materials from the Early Bronze Age levels. In addition to large numbers of awls and spatulae, other objects are attested as well, such as spindle whorls, beads and pendants, decorated bone tubes, a scale beam…
Artefacts made out of bone and related materials: Raw material, manufacture, typology and use
From the Palaeolithic to the Pre-Modern Era, artefacts made out of materials of animal origin (bone, ivory, horn, antler, mollusc, shell, etc.) are commonly encountered on excavations in Southwest ...
Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period
Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid- to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to the 4.2ka BP climatic event. This article presents a radiocarbon sequence for the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and argues that the end of the Early Bronze III period has to be dated considerably higher …
Restoring the balance: An Early Bronze Age scale beam from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon
The author reports an object of modest appearance but great significance - a small bone beam for weighing precious commodities. Weighing indicates the regulation of quantities for exchange or manufacture and is thus a key agent of social and economic complexity. Well-stratified and dated to the early third millennium BC, this find puts the people of the Levant among the earliest to quantify mass. We are rightly urged to inspect faunal assemblages…
Recent Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
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 …
Post‐collapse: The Re‐emergence of Polity in Iron Age Boğazköy, Central Anatolia
How communities reorganize after collapse is drawing increasing attention across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Iron Age Boğazköy provides an archaeological case study of urban and political regeneration after the widespread collapse of eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age empires in the early twelfth century BC. Recent work at Boğazköy has significantly expanded our understanding of long‐term occupation in north central Anatolia. This work cou…
Stunning Bolts: Late Bronze Age Hunting Weapons in the Ancient Near East
A group of small bronze objects from Late Bronze Age Egypt and the Near East most likely functioned as stunning bolts for fowling. As many of these objects are found in elite tombs, they certainly were part of the equipment of high-ranking warriors. In the discussion of the socio-technological implications of bird hunting with bows and arrows it is suggested that this was not only a leisure activity for the upper class, but also served as a train…
Die fruhbronzezeitliche Keramik von Hirbet ez-Zeraqon mit Studien zur Chronologie und funktionalen Deutung fruhbronzezeitlicher Keramik in der sudlichen Levante
Cash Crop Production and Storage in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant
Often an Egyptian demand for olive oil and wine is seen as a stimulus not only for the increasing production of these commodities in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) southern Levant, but also for their growing socioeconomic importance. While the import of southern Levantine wine to Egypt is proven by archaeological finds, the scale of this trade as well as its significance for the socioeconomic development of the southern Levant is debatable. It is mor…
Iron Age Pottery from Çadır-Höyük
Die Eisenzeit in Zentralanatolien im Lichte der keramischen Funde vom Büyükkaya in Boğazköy/Hattuşa
Bogazkoy/Hattusa'da Buyukkaya sirti uzerinde yapilan kazilarda genis alana yayilmis bir Demir Cagi yerlesmesi bulunmustur. Bogazkoy'deki eski kazilardan bilinen Frig tabakalariyla cagdas olanlarin (burada Orta Demir Cagi) disinda daha eski, Erken Demir Cag'a ait tabakalar dikkati ceker. Erken Demir Cag'a ait buluntular, Hitit Imparatorluk Cagi'ni takip eden Karanlik Cag olarak adlandirilan doneme isik tutar. Orta Anadolu bolgesinin Erken Demir Ca…
The Organisation of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in the Southern Levant
Very often metallurgy has been assigned a central role for the emergence of urbanism during the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. An investigation of the metallurgical remains, as well as the items produced, shows however tenuous causal connection between urban sites and metallurgical activities. Also prestige items in metal are generally lacking, indicating that the metal items which are mainly functional may have held no great social val…
The Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia in Light of Recent Research
Northern Slaves and the Origin of Handmade Burnished Ware: A Comment on Bankoff et al. (JMA 9 [1996] 193-209)
For more than 20 years Handmade Burnished Ware has been known to occur at sites on the Greek Mainland and some of the islands in association with the end of LH IIIB and LH IIIC. Its origins have been traced to various regions in Northern Greece, the Balkans and Italy. Numerous theories have been put forward to explain the presence of these foreign elements in Mycenaean Culture. Basically all theories can be grouped into two opinions. One group of…
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4: A Chalcolithic Village Complex in the Copper Ore District of Feinan, Southern Jordan
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
Tell Es-Sukhne North: An Early Bronze Age II Site in Jordan
Outside of the Jordan Valley, the Early Bronze Age II of northern Jordan remains largely uninvestigated, though surveys have identified EB II sites throughout the region. Surface collections and test excavations at Tell es-Sukhne North in the central Zarqa Basin provide evidence of settlement and economic organization at a multi-component EB II site : identified extensive architectural remains, significant lithic and ceramic materials, including …
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4: A Chalcolithic Village Complex in the Copper Ore District of Feinan, Southern Jordan
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
Cash Crop Production and Storage in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant
Often an Egyptian demand for olive oil and wine is seen as a stimulus not only for the increasing production of these commodities in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) southern Levant, but also for their growing socioeconomic importance. While the import of southern Levantine wine to Egypt is proven by archaeological finds, the scale of this trade as well as its significance for the socioeconomic development of the southern Levant is debatable. It is mor…
Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period
Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid- to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to the 4.2ka BP climatic event. This article presents a radiocarbon sequence for the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and argues that the end of the Early Bronze III period has to be dated considerably higher …
The Organisation of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in the Southern Levant
Very often metallurgy has been assigned a central role for the emergence of urbanism during the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. An investigation of the metallurgical remains, as well as the items produced, shows however tenuous causal connection between urban sites and metallurgical activities. Also prestige items in metal are generally lacking, indicating that the metal items which are mainly functional may have held no great social val…
Post‐collapse: The Re‐emergence of Polity in Iron Age Boğazköy, Central Anatolia
How communities reorganize after collapse is drawing increasing attention across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Iron Age Boğazköy provides an archaeological case study of urban and political regeneration after the widespread collapse of eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age empires in the early twelfth century BC. Recent work at Boğazköy has significantly expanded our understanding of long‐term occupation in north central Anatolia. This work cou…
Restoring the balance: An Early Bronze Age scale beam from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon
The author reports an object of modest appearance but great significance - a small bone beam for weighing precious commodities. Weighing indicates the regulation of quantities for exchange or manufacture and is thus a key agent of social and economic complexity. Well-stratified and dated to the early third millennium BC, this find puts the people of the Levant among the earliest to quantify mass. We are rightly urged to inspect faunal assemblages…
Tell Es-Sukhne North: An Early Bronze Age II Site in Jordan
Outside of the Jordan Valley, the Early Bronze Age II of northern Jordan remains largely uninvestigated, though surveys have identified EB II sites throughout the region. Surface collections and test excavations at Tell es-Sukhne North in the central Zarqa Basin provide evidence of settlement and economic organization at a multi-component EB II site : identified extensive architectural remains, significant lithic and ceramic materials, including …
Recent Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
The Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia in Light of Recent Research
Northern Slaves and the Origin of Handmade Burnished Ware: A Comment on Bankoff et al. (JMA 9 [1996] 193-209)
For more than 20 years Handmade Burnished Ware has been known to occur at sites on the Greek Mainland and some of the islands in association with the end of LH IIIB and LH IIIC. Its origins have been traced to various regions in Northern Greece, the Balkans and Italy. Numerous theories have been put forward to explain the presence of these foreign elements in Mycenaean Culture. Basically all theories can be grouped into two opinions. One group of…
Excavations at Wadi Fidan 4: A Chalcolithic Village Complex in the Copper Ore District of Feinan, Southern Jordan
The site of Wadi Fidan 4 can now be definitively dated as an extended village settlement of the Chalcolithic period. Excavation in Areas A, Band D as well as surface survey of the site indicate that the entire surface of the plateau was covered by buildings. At present no full botanical or faunal reports are available, and as a result little can be said about the subsistence economy. It is clear however from the metallurgical finds and mining pic…
Tell Es-Sukhne North: An Early Bronze Age II Site in Jordan
Outside of the Jordan Valley, the Early Bronze Age II of northern Jordan remains largely uninvestigated, though surveys have identified EB II sites throughout the region. Surface collections and test excavations at Tell es-Sukhne North in the central Zarqa Basin provide evidence of settlement and economic organization at a multi-component EB II site : identified extensive architectural remains, significant lithic and ceramic materials, including …
Northern Slaves and the Origin of Handmade Burnished Ware: A Comment on Bankoff et al. (JMA 9 [1996] 193-209)
For more than 20 years Handmade Burnished Ware has been known to occur at sites on the Greek Mainland and some of the islands in association with the end of LH IIIB and LH IIIC. Its origins have been traced to various regions in Northern Greece, the Balkans and Italy. Numerous theories have been put forward to explain the presence of these foreign elements in Mycenaean Culture. Basically all theories can be grouped into two opinions. One group of…
Die Eisenzeit in Zentralanatolien im Lichte der keramischen Funde vom Büyükkaya in Boğazköy/Hattuşa
Bogazkoy/Hattusa'da Buyukkaya sirti uzerinde yapilan kazilarda genis alana yayilmis bir Demir Cagi yerlesmesi bulunmustur. Bogazkoy'deki eski kazilardan bilinen Frig tabakalariyla cagdas olanlarin (burada Orta Demir Cagi) disinda daha eski, Erken Demir Cag'a ait tabakalar dikkati ceker. Erken Demir Cag'a ait buluntular, Hitit Imparatorluk Cagi'ni takip eden Karanlik Cag olarak adlandirilan doneme isik tutar. Orta Anadolu bolgesinin Erken Demir Ca…
The Organisation of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in the Southern Levant
Very often metallurgy has been assigned a central role for the emergence of urbanism during the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant. An investigation of the metallurgical remains, as well as the items produced, shows however tenuous causal connection between urban sites and metallurgical activities. Also prestige items in metal are generally lacking, indicating that the metal items which are mainly functional may have held no great social val…
The Early Iron Age in Central Anatolia in Light of Recent Research
Iron Age Pottery from Çadır-Höyük
Cash Crop Production and Storage in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant
Often an Egyptian demand for olive oil and wine is seen as a stimulus not only for the increasing production of these commodities in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) southern Levant, but also for their growing socioeconomic importance. While the import of southern Levantine wine to Egypt is proven by archaeological finds, the scale of this trade as well as its significance for the socioeconomic development of the southern Levant is debatable. It is mor…
Die fruhbronzezeitliche Keramik von Hirbet ez-Zeraqon mit Studien zur Chronologie und funktionalen Deutung fruhbronzezeitlicher Keramik in der sudlichen Levante
Stunning Bolts: Late Bronze Age Hunting Weapons in the Ancient Near East
A group of small bronze objects from Late Bronze Age Egypt and the Near East most likely functioned as stunning bolts for fowling. As many of these objects are found in elite tombs, they certainly were part of the equipment of high-ranking warriors. In the discussion of the socio-technological implications of bird hunting with bows and arrows it is suggested that this was not only a leisure activity for the upper class, but also served as a train…
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 …
Post‐collapse: The Re‐emergence of Polity in Iron Age Boğazköy, Central Anatolia
How communities reorganize after collapse is drawing increasing attention across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Iron Age Boğazköy provides an archaeological case study of urban and political regeneration after the widespread collapse of eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age empires in the early twelfth century BC. Recent work at Boğazköy has significantly expanded our understanding of long‐term occupation in north central Anatolia. This work cou…
Recent Excavations at Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Restoring the balance: An Early Bronze Age scale beam from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida, Lebanon
The author reports an object of modest appearance but great significance - a small bone beam for weighing precious commodities. Weighing indicates the regulation of quantities for exchange or manufacture and is thus a key agent of social and economic complexity. Well-stratified and dated to the early third millennium BC, this find puts the people of the Levant among the earliest to quantify mass. We are rightly urged to inspect faunal assemblages…
Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period
Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid- to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to the 4.2ka BP climatic event. This article presents a radiocarbon sequence for the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and argues that the end of the Early Bronze III period has to be dated considerably higher …
Simple bone tools from Early Bronze Age Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon): A household approach
Despite their relatively limited scale, the excavations conducted at the site of Tell Fadous Kfarabida on the Lebanese coast between 2004 and 2015 have provided a large and surprisingly varied assemblage of objects made out bone and related materials from the Early Bronze Age levels. In addition to large numbers of awls and spatulae, other objects are attested as well, such as spindle whorls, beads and pendants, decorated bone tubes, a scale beam…
Artefacts made out of bone and related materials: Raw material, manufacture, typology and use
From the Palaeolithic to the Pre-Modern Era, artefacts made out of materials of animal origin (bone, ivory, horn, antler, mollusc, shell, etc.) are commonly encountered on excavations in Southwest ...
Between Land and Sea: An Airborne LiDAR Field Survey to Detect Ancient Sites in the Chekka Region/Lebanon Using Spatial Analyses
The interdisciplinary project “Between Land and Sea” combines geological, geomorphological and paleo-environmental approaches to identify archaeological remains of the Chekka region (Lebanon). In order to record the topography of this area, the first ever scientific airborne LiDAR data acquisition in Lebanon was conducted in autumn 2018. This work describes not only the acquisition and processing of the LiDAR data, but also the attempt to derive …
Recent Early Bronze Age Glyptic Finds from Lebanon: The Evidence from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
While Early Bronze Age glyptic finds from the southern Levant as well as from Syria have received considerable attention in the scholarly literature, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the glyptic material from Lebanon. For a long time, Byblos was the only site with a considerable number of Early Bronze Age glyptic finds, but the often unclear stratigraphic and contextual situation of the material hugely diminished its scientific value. …
Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon
Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates: From Chalcolithic Village to Assyrian Provincial Capital
Excavations at the Palatial Complex: Kerkenes Final Reports 2
Archaeology (19 works) · History (17 works) · Ancient history (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Bronze Age (14 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Bronze (9 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (7 works)