Tony J Wilkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony J Wilkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkinson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINSON T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Archaeology Durham University Durham UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire
This chapter investigates the archaeological landscapes of the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Drawing on evidence from current and archived archaeological surveys, in combination with high-resolution remote sensing datasets such as CORONA spy photography, we compare the organisation of settlements and defensive structures of the Sasanian frontier zones in response to a variety of external pressures. These varied from the Roman Empire in the we…
Holocene Avulsions of the Euphrates River in the Najaf Area of Western Mesopotamia
We present a study that reconstructs the ancient courses of the Euphrates in part of the Mesopotamian floodplain west and southwest of the ancient site of Babylon. The focus is on tracing paleochannel courses, determining when these paleochannels were active, and understanding the patterns of avulsion. The research was carried out using a combination of geological, geomorphological, remote sensing, historical, and archaeological approaches. Field…
Grand challenges for archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Settlement and Mobility in the Middle Euphrates
Urbanization occupies an ambiguous position in the development of the Middle Euphrates region of Turkey and Syria, in part because the area frequently formed a contested region between other stronger Early Bronze Age polities. This paper aims to review evidence from a series of archaeological surveys to illustrate trends in settlement during the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. Re-analysis of survey data from three exemplar regions in the Middle Euphra…
The geoarchaeology of route systems in northern Syria
Linear valleys, termed hollow ways, form a distinctive feature of the North Syrian Bronze Age landscape, but few have been described in detail or excavated. This paper examines the geoarchaeology of hollow way route systems in northern Syria at three scales of analysis: (1) from satellite imagery, at which scale it is possible to examine patterns of hollow ways over very large areas; (2) in the field, where cleaned sections supply ground control …
Human-Environment Interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, Southwest Iran. Recent Investigations
Evidence from archaeological excavation, intensive surface survey, geoarchaeological investigations, and remote sensing conducted in fall 2002 establishes parameters for the long-term history of human-environment interaction on the eastern margins of the Upper Khuzestan plains. During the 6th-4th millennia ВСЕ (the Susiana and Protoliterate periods), human settlement in this region was dispersed, intermittent, and shifting, due in part to a subsi…
The Amuq Valley Regional Project, 1995-1998
The Amuq plain in southeast Turkey is of major importance to the development of Near Eastern cultural sequences. Recent investigations of geoarchaeology, settlement patterns, and individual sites now provide a framework for the assessment of the original work by the University of Chicago and Sir Leonard Woolley. Geoarchaeological investigations provide a dynamic context for the interpretation of settlement patterns and show that sedimentation ove…
Agricultural decline in the Siraf region, Iran
The region around the 9th-llth century city of Siraf, Iran, is examined to show how intensive surveys can help in the assessment of the economic geography of archaeological sites. Agricultural land, much of it terraced, was found to spread over 6 km inland from the city occupying land which is shunned by modern cultivators. Frequently this land was stripped and fragmented by sheet or gully erosion but cultural remains enabled me original ground s…
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
The geoarchaeology of route systems in northern Syria
Linear valleys, termed hollow ways, form a distinctive feature of the North Syrian Bronze Age landscape, but few have been described in detail or excavated. This paper examines the geoarchaeology of hollow way route systems in northern Syria at three scales of analysis: (1) from satellite imagery, at which scale it is possible to examine patterns of hollow ways over very large areas; (2) in the field, where cleaned sections supply ground control …
Human-Environment Interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, Southwest Iran. Recent Investigations
Evidence from archaeological excavation, intensive surface survey, geoarchaeological investigations, and remote sensing conducted in fall 2002 establishes parameters for the long-term history of human-environment interaction on the eastern margins of the Upper Khuzestan plains. During the 6th-4th millennia ВСЕ (the Susiana and Protoliterate periods), human settlement in this region was dispersed, intermittent, and shifting, due in part to a subsi…
The Amuq Valley Regional Project, 1995-1998
The Amuq plain in southeast Turkey is of major importance to the development of Near Eastern cultural sequences. Recent investigations of geoarchaeology, settlement patterns, and individual sites now provide a framework for the assessment of the original work by the University of Chicago and Sir Leonard Woolley. Geoarchaeological investigations provide a dynamic context for the interpretation of settlement patterns and show that sedimentation ove…
Holocene Avulsions of the Euphrates River in the Najaf Area of Western Mesopotamia
We present a study that reconstructs the ancient courses of the Euphrates in part of the Mesopotamian floodplain west and southwest of the ancient site of Babylon. The focus is on tracing paleochannel courses, determining when these paleochannels were active, and understanding the patterns of avulsion. The research was carried out using a combination of geological, geomorphological, remote sensing, historical, and archaeological approaches. Field…
Agricultural decline in the Siraf region, Iran
The region around the 9th-llth century city of Siraf, Iran, is examined to show how intensive surveys can help in the assessment of the economic geography of archaeological sites. Agricultural land, much of it terraced, was found to spread over 6 km inland from the city occupying land which is shunned by modern cultivators. Frequently this land was stripped and fragmented by sheet or gully erosion but cultural remains enabled me original ground s…
Agricultural decline in the Siraf region, Iran
The region around the 9th-llth century city of Siraf, Iran, is examined to show how intensive surveys can help in the assessment of the economic geography of archaeological sites. Agricultural land, much of it terraced, was found to spread over 6 km inland from the city occupying land which is shunned by modern cultivators. Frequently this land was stripped and fragmented by sheet or gully erosion but cultural remains enabled me original ground s…
The Amuq Valley Regional Project, 1995-1998
The Amuq plain in southeast Turkey is of major importance to the development of Near Eastern cultural sequences. Recent investigations of geoarchaeology, settlement patterns, and individual sites now provide a framework for the assessment of the original work by the University of Chicago and Sir Leonard Woolley. Geoarchaeological investigations provide a dynamic context for the interpretation of settlement patterns and show that sedimentation ove…
Human-Environment Interactions on the Upper Khuzestan Plains, Southwest Iran. Recent Investigations
Evidence from archaeological excavation, intensive surface survey, geoarchaeological investigations, and remote sensing conducted in fall 2002 establishes parameters for the long-term history of human-environment interaction on the eastern margins of the Upper Khuzestan plains. During the 6th-4th millennia ВСЕ (the Susiana and Protoliterate periods), human settlement in this region was dispersed, intermittent, and shifting, due in part to a subsi…
The geoarchaeology of route systems in northern Syria
Linear valleys, termed hollow ways, form a distinctive feature of the North Syrian Bronze Age landscape, but few have been described in detail or excavated. This paper examines the geoarchaeology of hollow way route systems in northern Syria at three scales of analysis: (1) from satellite imagery, at which scale it is possible to examine patterns of hollow ways over very large areas; (2) in the field, where cleaned sections supply ground control …
Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Landscapes of Settlement and Mobility in the Middle Euphrates
Urbanization occupies an ambiguous position in the development of the Middle Euphrates region of Turkey and Syria, in part because the area frequently formed a contested region between other stronger Early Bronze Age polities. This paper aims to review evidence from a series of archaeological surveys to illustrate trends in settlement during the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. Re-analysis of survey data from three exemplar regions in the Middle Euphra…
Grand challenges for archaeology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Grand Challenges for Archaeology
This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly to the professional community of archaeologists, the authors augmented, prioritized, and refined the responses during a two-day workshop focused specifically on this question. The resulting 25 'grand challenges' focus on dynamic cultural processes and the operation of…
Holocene Avulsions of the Euphrates River in the Najaf Area of Western Mesopotamia
We present a study that reconstructs the ancient courses of the Euphrates in part of the Mesopotamian floodplain west and southwest of the ancient site of Babylon. The focus is on tracing paleochannel courses, determining when these paleochannels were active, and understanding the patterns of avulsion. The research was carried out using a combination of geological, geomorphological, remote sensing, historical, and archaeological approaches. Field…
The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire
This chapter investigates the archaeological landscapes of the frontiers of the Sasanian Empire. Drawing on evidence from current and archived archaeological surveys, in combination with high-resolution remote sensing datasets such as CORONA spy photography, we compare the organisation of settlements and defensive structures of the Sasanian frontier zones in response to a variety of external pressures. These varied from the Roman Empire in the we…
Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Ancient Near East History (3 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Human settlement (3 works)