The demise and regeneration of Bronze Age urban centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria

After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies

Volumn 9780816521203, Issue , 2010, Pages 18-37

  Cooper, Lisa ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Department of Classical ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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1. While it is difficult to verify from the published reports of the architectural remains that Tell Amarna has an uninterrupted stratigraphic sequence from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age, this is clearly borne out by the pottery from the site, which has been carefully studied by Nina Pons (2001). In particular, the pottery of Phase III in Area A possesses some of the same "transitional EB-MB" forms as exist at other Euphrates sites. Moreover, the author's research on Middle Bronze Age tombs at the site has conirmed the existence of a well-developed MB assemblage at Amarna. In summary, Tell Amarna's pottery assemblage comprises all periods under scrutiny in this investigation (EB IV, EB-MB, MB) and thus supports the premise of settlement continuity.