Paul Wordsworth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3096360 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Wordsworth |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Wordsworth |
| ASSINATURA | WORDSWORTH P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7696-0946 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )
This study draws on archaeological, stylistic, and technological evidence to explore ceramic and brick production of the medieval Islamic period in the southern Karakum region in Turkmenistan, home to many urban sites along the so-called Silk Roads.We focus on a 9th-12th centuries A.D. assemblage recovered from the site of Dandanakan/Da Rabat during the first season of ToKa (Town of Karakum project) in 2019.Special emphasis is paid to characteriz…
The earliest water buffalo in the Caucasus
The expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates (seventh to ninth centuries AD) brought diverse regions from the Indus Valley to the Eurasian Steppe under hegemonic control. An overlooked aspect of this political process is the subsequent translocation of species across ecological zones. This article explores species introduction in the early Islamic world, presenting the first archaeological evidence for domestic water buffalo in the Caucasu…
To the North and the South, through the Great Caucasus Mountains
The publication of the British-Georgian exploration of Dariali Gorge (2013-2016) represents a substantial benchmark for the archaeology of the Caucasus, above all else for its multi-faceted approach. While numerous international and local projects continue a well-established tradition of archaeological research in the region, few have attempted the breadth of interdisciplinary work presented in this book. The result is a remarkably rich resource,…
Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia
Problematising the Shifting Capitals of Medieval Arran
The dominant historical narrative for early Islamic frontier zones such as Arran, in the Caucasus, tends to focus on the administrative centres, the capital cities. As this story of development becomes synthesised and simplified, there has been a tendency to understand this process as the decline of one major centre and the rise of another, almost in the sense of city-states. This paper reconsiders the case of the changing capitals of Arran, to u…
Semi-fortified Palatial Complexes in Central Asia
Within Central Asia there is an unusual group of earthen buildings (köshks), usually constructed on raised platforms, with vertical engaged columns forming iconic ‘corrugations’ on the exterior walls. The complexes are semi-fortified, with a second storey entrance, and often with asymmetrical ranges of rooms around an internal courtyard. Little systematic archaeological work has taken place on these monuments, which have mainly been studied as re…
The Dramatic Abandonment of a Late-Antique Settlement in the South Caucasus
This paper presents the first results of a new project investigating the provincial structure of the eastern Caucasus region in the late Antique and early Islamic periods. Excavations at the newly discovered rural archaeological site of Qaratəpə have so far revealed two phases of use: a burial ground dating to the 12th century a.d. and an unusually large earthen structure burnt in a catastrophic fire. Owing to the rapid abandonment of this buildi…
The hydrological networks of the Balkh Oasis after the arrival of Islam
This article seeks to evaluate the development of the Balkh Oasis in Northern Afghanistan, from the perspective of hydrological management. The concept of ‘oasis cities’ has been applied to several lowland settlement systems in Central Asia, characterised as fertile river deltas surrounded by deserts. Of these, the oasis surrounding the city of Balkh remains the least well archaeologically explored, in spite of the fact that it represents possibl…
Nomadism in Iran
Daniel Potts’s volume delivers a broad overview of the historical practice of nomadism in Iran, with a particular focus on the political impact of transhumant pastoralist groups. Potts’s longue durée begins even earlier than stated in the title, as he presents a systematic chronological narrative that runs from the Neolithic Revolution to that of 1979. At the core of the volume, however, lie two critical observations of the current dominant persp…
Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th–13th centuries
Merv to the Oxus
The site of Merv in Turkmenistan supported a series of major urban settlements from the 5th century BCE to the 13th century CE and is now a World Heritage Site. The Institute of Archaeology has been involved in international research at Merv since 1991, including both excavation and field survey. Here the Director of the current project describes the latest field survey, which is investigating Merv's place in the famous Silk Roads that traversed …
Problematising the Shifting Capitals of Medieval Arran
The dominant historical narrative for early Islamic frontier zones such as Arran, in the Caucasus, tends to focus on the administrative centres, the capital cities. As this story of development becomes synthesised and simplified, there has been a tendency to understand this process as the decline of one major centre and the rise of another, almost in the sense of city-states. This paper reconsiders the case of the changing capitals of Arran, to u…
The hydrological networks of the Balkh Oasis after the arrival of Islam
This article seeks to evaluate the development of the Balkh Oasis in Northern Afghanistan, from the perspective of hydrological management. The concept of ‘oasis cities’ has been applied to several lowland settlement systems in Central Asia, characterised as fertile river deltas surrounded by deserts. Of these, the oasis surrounding the city of Balkh remains the least well archaeologically explored, in spite of the fact that it represents possibl…
The earliest water buffalo in the Caucasus
The expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates (seventh to ninth centuries AD) brought diverse regions from the Indus Valley to the Eurasian Steppe under hegemonic control. An overlooked aspect of this political process is the subsequent translocation of species across ecological zones. This article explores species introduction in the early Islamic world, presenting the first archaeological evidence for domestic water buffalo in the Caucasu…
Semi-fortified Palatial Complexes in Central Asia
Within Central Asia there is an unusual group of earthen buildings (köshks), usually constructed on raised platforms, with vertical engaged columns forming iconic ‘corrugations’ on the exterior walls. The complexes are semi-fortified, with a second storey entrance, and often with asymmetrical ranges of rooms around an internal courtyard. Little systematic archaeological work has taken place on these monuments, which have mainly been studied as re…
The Dramatic Abandonment of a Late-Antique Settlement in the South Caucasus
This paper presents the first results of a new project investigating the provincial structure of the eastern Caucasus region in the late Antique and early Islamic periods. Excavations at the newly discovered rural archaeological site of Qaratəpə have so far revealed two phases of use: a burial ground dating to the 12th century a.d. and an unusually large earthen structure burnt in a catastrophic fire. Owing to the rapid abandonment of this buildi…
Merv to the Oxus
The site of Merv in Turkmenistan supported a series of major urban settlements from the 5th century BCE to the 13th century CE and is now a World Heritage Site. The Institute of Archaeology has been involved in international research at Merv since 1991, including both excavation and field survey. Here the Director of the current project describes the latest field survey, which is investigating Merv's place in the famous Silk Roads that traversed …
Merv to the Oxus
The site of Merv in Turkmenistan supported a series of major urban settlements from the 5th century BCE to the 13th century CE and is now a World Heritage Site. The Institute of Archaeology has been involved in international research at Merv since 1991, including both excavation and field survey. Here the Director of the current project describes the latest field survey, which is investigating Merv's place in the famous Silk Roads that traversed …
Merv on Khorasanian trade routes from the 10th–13th centuries
Nomadism in Iran
Daniel Potts’s volume delivers a broad overview of the historical practice of nomadism in Iran, with a particular focus on the political impact of transhumant pastoralist groups. Potts’s longue durée begins even earlier than stated in the title, as he presents a systematic chronological narrative that runs from the Neolithic Revolution to that of 1979. At the core of the volume, however, lie two critical observations of the current dominant persp…
Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia
Problematising the Shifting Capitals of Medieval Arran
The dominant historical narrative for early Islamic frontier zones such as Arran, in the Caucasus, tends to focus on the administrative centres, the capital cities. As this story of development becomes synthesised and simplified, there has been a tendency to understand this process as the decline of one major centre and the rise of another, almost in the sense of city-states. This paper reconsiders the case of the changing capitals of Arran, to u…
Semi-fortified Palatial Complexes in Central Asia
Within Central Asia there is an unusual group of earthen buildings (köshks), usually constructed on raised platforms, with vertical engaged columns forming iconic ‘corrugations’ on the exterior walls. The complexes are semi-fortified, with a second storey entrance, and often with asymmetrical ranges of rooms around an internal courtyard. Little systematic archaeological work has taken place on these monuments, which have mainly been studied as re…
The Dramatic Abandonment of a Late-Antique Settlement in the South Caucasus
This paper presents the first results of a new project investigating the provincial structure of the eastern Caucasus region in the late Antique and early Islamic periods. Excavations at the newly discovered rural archaeological site of Qaratəpə have so far revealed two phases of use: a burial ground dating to the 12th century a.d. and an unusually large earthen structure burnt in a catastrophic fire. Owing to the rapid abandonment of this buildi…
The hydrological networks of the Balkh Oasis after the arrival of Islam
This article seeks to evaluate the development of the Balkh Oasis in Northern Afghanistan, from the perspective of hydrological management. The concept of ‘oasis cities’ has been applied to several lowland settlement systems in Central Asia, characterised as fertile river deltas surrounded by deserts. Of these, the oasis surrounding the city of Balkh remains the least well archaeologically explored, in spite of the fact that it represents possibl…
The earliest water buffalo in the Caucasus
The expansion of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates (seventh to ninth centuries AD) brought diverse regions from the Indus Valley to the Eurasian Steppe under hegemonic control. An overlooked aspect of this political process is the subsequent translocation of species across ecological zones. This article explores species introduction in the early Islamic world, presenting the first archaeological evidence for domestic water buffalo in the Caucasu…
To the North and the South, through the Great Caucasus Mountains
The publication of the British-Georgian exploration of Dariali Gorge (2013-2016) represents a substantial benchmark for the archaeology of the Caucasus, above all else for its multi-faceted approach. While numerous international and local projects continue a well-established tradition of archaeological research in the region, few have attempted the breadth of interdisciplinary work presented in this book. The result is a remarkably rich resource,…
Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d. )
This study draws on archaeological, stylistic, and technological evidence to explore ceramic and brick production of the medieval Islamic period in the southern Karakum region in Turkmenistan, home to many urban sites along the so-called Silk Roads.We focus on a 9th-12th centuries A.D. assemblage recovered from the site of Dandanakan/Da Rabat during the first season of ToKa (Town of Karakum project) in 2019.Special emphasis is paid to characteriz…
Geography (10 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Ancient history (7 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 obras) · History (5 obras) · Islam (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Ancient Near East History (3 obras)