The land of Sumer and Akkad. Reconstruction of its environment and history

Research project P5/14 (Research action P5)

Description - Documentation

Persons :

• Prof. dr.  TANRET Michel 
  Coordinator of the project
  Financed belgian partner
  Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2006
  
• Prof. dr.  VAN LERBERGHE Karel 
  Financed belgian partner
  Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2006
  
• Prof. dr.  BAETEMAN Cecile 
  Financed belgian partner
  Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2006
  
• Prof. dr.  TUNCA Önhan 
  Financed belgian partner
  Duration: 1/1/2002-31/12/2006
  

Description :

This proposal aims to build upon the former IAP projects "The Land of Sumer and Akkad": Reconstruction of Its Environment and History (IAP phase II/34 and IV/25), taking into account the positive evaluation and recommendations made by the ex-post evaluation commission and the conclusions of the expert panel on the IUAP program in general.

The objective of the project is a new interpretation of the complex historical evolution of the Mesopotamian alluvial plain, the ancient lands of Sumer and Akkad. To this end, one of the priorities is to assess the interaction of the ancient environment with the populations of Mesopotamia and the development of their social, political, and economic institutions over time.

In order to present a picture of the world's oldest civilizations, a synthetic treatment is necessary from a varied and extensive array of data coming from different disciplines, i.e. geo-sciences, archaeology, philology and history. Human responses to and human impact upon the changing environment will be investigated, documented and monitored from the early stages of mans history. The Mesopotamian alluvial plain indeed offers the unique advantage of a very early written documentation coupled with an archaeological record, both extending virtually without interruption over five thousand years. These two sets of data will be studied in conjunction with data from the earth-sciences in order to obtain a multi-faceted and evolving image of man and his environment.

The collection and integrated interpretation of such diverse data can only be achieved by an interuniversity research unit of experts, working across-discipline with a common data-gathering, data-analysis and data-management structure and thereby exploiting or applying the newest scientific and technical developments and infrastructures in various fields. It must be stressed that the originality and the force of this project is precisely situated in the synthesis between alpha and beta sciences.

Synergy has grown during the latest Phase IV of the project and the aim is to intensify and stabilize this expertise and research capacity into a new interuniversity research infrastructure which should underline its role in the future as an active participant in the European research space.

Documentation :

Bibliografic references :

Archaeological Stratigraphy. A Near Eastern Approach  WARBURTON, D.A., Neuchâtel., 2003 

Der spätfrühdynastische “Palast-Tempel” auf der Akropolis von Tell Beydar  BRETSCHNEIDER, J. , 2003 

Die akkadzeitlichen Tempel auf der Akropolis von Tell Beydar"  BRETSCHNEIDER, J., JANS, G., SULEIMAN, A., , 2003 

Drei altiranische Notizen  TAVERNIER J., in Van Tongerloo, A., (ed.), Iranica Selecta: Studies in Honour of Professor Wojciech Skalmowski, Silk Road Studies 8, Turnhout,, 2003 

EJ III and IV Ceramics from Field E  BROEKMANS, T. , 2003 

EJ Small Finds in the E Field  GODDEERIS A., , 2003 

Fleuves, irrigation et inondations en Basse Mésopotamie et en Susiane?  GASCHE, H., COLE, S.W Atti del Convegninternationale. Milano, 25 gennai2003, Milano,, 2003 

From Satellite and Survey tWeb Mapping : The Mesopotamian Plain as SVG on the Web?  VERHOEVEN, K. Enter the Past CAA2003 Congress Abstracts,, 2003 

Geo-environmental mapping of the Mesopotamian Plain during the Middle and Late Holocene  HEYVAERT, V., BAETEMAN, C., in Book of Abstracts of The QRA 8th and second International Post-Graduate International Symposium, Department of Geography, Queen Mary university of London, London, UK,, 2003/Sep 

La fin de la première dynastie de Babylone: une chute difficile?  GASCHE, H., Akkadica 124, 2003 

L'île de Khårg. Une page de l'histoire de Golfe Persique et du monachsime oriental (= CPOA 1)  STEVE, M.-J. (avec la collaboration de C. Hardy-Guilbert, C. & F. Jullien et E. Smekens et avec des contributions de F. Gaffary, E. Haerinck, É. Puech et A. Rougeulle; édité par H. Gasche) Neuchâtel., 2003 

Research on the Outer Rampart  DEBRUYNE M., , 2003 

Review of M.B. Garrison and M.C. Root, Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets.  TAVERNIER J. Vol. I: Images of Heroic Encounter, Oriental Inst. Public. 117, Chicago, 2001, in Biblioth. Orientalis 60, Leiden,, 2003 

Review of M.W. Waters, A Survey of Neo-Elamite History  TAVERNIER J. State Archives of Assyria Studies 12, Helsinki, 2000, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62,, 2003 

RIAA2 293-300. Hellenistic Legal Documents from Uruk in the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels)  BOIY, T. Akkadica 124, 2003 

Small Finds from the Acropolis  DEBRUYNE M., JANS G., VAN DER STEDE, V., , 2003 

Study of a Canalisation System for the Palatial Complex  DEBRUYNE M., , 2003 

Suse? (suite et fin de l'article dont le début est paru en 2002),  STEVE, M.-J., VALLAT, F., GASCHE, H., JULLIEN, C. et F., DB Suppl. 74, 2003 

Tell Ahmar/Til Barsib, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth seasons (2001/2002)  BUNNENS, G. Orient-Express, 2003 

Tell Beydar, the 1995-1999 Seasons of Excavation  LEBEAU, M., SULEIMAN, A., (eds.) A Preliminary Report, Subartu X, Turnhout,, 2003 

Tell Boueid II, A Late Neolithic Village on the Middle Khabur,  SULEIMAN, A., NIEUWENHUYSE, O. Subartu XI, Turnhout, 2003 

The Early Jezireh IIIb Public Building on the Acropolis of Tell Beyda  DEBRUYNE M., , 2003 

The Filling Process in the E Field  GODDEERIS A.“ , 2003 

The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization  ROVA, E., HARVEY WEISS, H. Ninevite 5 Chronology, Economy, Society, Subartu IX, Turnhout., 2003 

The reconstruction of History and Environment of the Mesopotamian Plain during the Middle and Late Holocene  HEYVAERT, V., BAETEMAN, C. Abstracts of BELQUA Meeting, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium,, 2003/Dec 

The reconstruction of History and Environment of the Mesopotamian Plain during the Middle and Late Holocene  HEYVAERT, V., BAETEMAN, C., GASCHE, H., Book of Abstracts of XVI INQUA Congress: Shaping The Earth: A Quaternary persp., Reno, Nevada, USA, 2003/Jul 

The Venus Tablet and Refraction?,  GURZADYAN, V.G Akkadica 124,, 2003 

Tod in Mesopotamie  BRETSCHNEIDER, J., BERLEJUNG, A. Spektrum der Wissenschaft,, 2003/Sep 

TwIlßu-ibni's, twugula gidru's. ?arrum-Laba—, a military settlement at the Irnina??,  DE GRAEF, K., Aula Orientalis 20 (2002, published in 2003),, 2003