al-Hira | Early Islamic Urbanism by Martin Gussone
AARGnews, 2023
The sub-project Hira settlement research with declassified HEXAGON Imagery 4 , is part of the DFG... more The sub-project Hira settlement research with declassified HEXAGON Imagery 4 , is part of the DFG funded collaborative project The Late Antique and Early Islamic Hira-Urbanistic Transformation Processes of a Transregional Contact Zone. By augmenting the existing assemblage, of remote sensing (CORONA, GeoEye; Google, UAV, Magnetometry), survey (field walking, surface documentation and stratigraphic measurements) and excavation data with high resolution HEXAGON imagery, the main objectives of the sub project are to: 1) reconstruct the original extent of the Late Antique and Early Islamic settlement of al-Hira;
TU intern, 2022, 1, p8, 2022
Sumer 65, 2019
The survey conducted in the area of historical al-Hira between 2015-2017 decisively expanded our ... more The survey conducted in the area of historical al-Hira between 2015-2017 decisively expanded our knowledge of the localisation and extension of the historical settlement, its spatial order and building typology. The large-scale documentation of settlement activities indicates two patterns. While the central survey-area is characterised by loose agglomerations of large complexes with open spaces in between, the western part shows a dense urban network with streets and residential structures. This situation can be linked to the evaluation of surface finds. In the central survey-area, finds of the 6th-8th c. dominate, while those from the 9th c. prevail in the west. It is suggested that the large complexes correspond to the qusur of al-Hira mentioned by Arabic sources and the urban network belongs to an early Islamic building phase. This means that, contrary to the prevailing interpretation of al-Hira being abandoned after the foundation of al-Kufa, it saw a period of urban growth under the early Abbasids.
Proceedings of the 11 th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Volume 2, 2020
Planes are rushing in and out at al-Najaf International Airport, carrying pilgrims to the thrivin... more Planes are rushing in and out at al-Najaf International Airport, carrying pilgrims to the thriving shrine of al-Najaf. Below them, widely unnoticed by the passengers, lie extensive settlements in the plain, the former Lakhmid capital of al-Ḥīra.
The al-Ḥīra Survey project began with a reassessment of previous research; fieldwork started with a first campaign in autumn 2015 (Müller-Wiener et al. 2015; Müller-Wiener, Gussone 2017; Müller-Wiener, Siegel 2018, cf. also Müller-Wiener et al.). This paper presents first results of the second, more comprehensive campaign conducted in the precincts of al-Najaf International Airport in October 2016, including the continuation of the archaeological surface survey (225 ha), stratigraphic survey of existing pits and investigation of surface features, magnetometer survey (75 ha) and UAV photogrammetric prospection (225 ha). Fieldwork was conducted with a multidisciplinary approach, which allows for a cross-check on the data and thus ensures a high degree of reliability.
Resafa | Early Islamic Archaeology by Martin Gussone
Proceedings ICAANE 12, 2023
The paper discusses the issue of Early Islamic urban development and addresses the conceptualisat... more The paper discusses the issue of Early Islamic urban development and addresses the conceptualisation of urban models as those of New Urban Settlements, of urban/quasi-urban quarters or townships, and of Satellite Towns. The aim is to contextualise the settlement structures of the caliphal residence of Hisham bin Abd al-Malik (rg. 105-125 AH/724-743 CE) in the surroundings of Resafa. Main comparative examples are settlements and foundations of the Umayyad elites that were adopted from different cultural contexts. These are supplemented by further comparative sites, mostly from the Arab tradition of open settlements. In distinction to those settlements that developed as common cities within the Early Islamic world, the majority of references discussed here were founded as palatial cities.
Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Vienna, 2018
It is scholarly consensus that the Marwanid Caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik chose the ancient pilgr... more It is scholarly consensus that the Marwanid Caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik chose the ancient pilgrimage city Resafa-Sergiupolis as his residence and built several palaces there. Based on reports in Arabic written sources, archaeological evidence and surveys various theories have been developed since the 1950s on this issue.
Interdisciplinary research of the past decade provided new results which caused the necessity to develop a new concept regarding the layout of the settlement and the caliphal residence. These results indicate that the archaeological remains in the surroundings of Resafa belong not only to the Umayyad Caliphal residence, but a multi-period settlement dating from the first half of the 6th c. and lasting until the last third of the 13th c. at least.
By analyzing the results of various archaeological prospection methods (e.g. aerial photographs, satellite images, magnetic prospecting) a more accurate picture of the settlement that existed in the surrounding areas of Resafa during different time layers can now be drawn. The present paper presents a first summary of the combined interpretation of the results of several prospections undertaken in the surroundings of Resafa, leading to a new concept of stratigraphic layers of the settlement remains, the urbanistic concept of the caliphal residence, the position of the main palace of Hisham b. Abd al-Malik in the surroundings of Resafa and the proposal to identify pre-Marwanid building structures south of the city as traces of the sedentarisation process of the Ghassanids and their elites.
Sack - Gussone 2018, Syria 2000-2011 Proceedings of ISCACH-Beirut 2015, 2018
Based on previous research since the 1980s a comprehensive project was launched in 2006. The resu... more Based on previous research since the 1980s a comprehensive project was launched in 2006. The results of a multidisciplinary approach with five sub-projects provides us with a basis to reconstruct the development of the pilgrimage city of St. Sergius and the caliphal residence of the Umayyad caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik, to the last reoccupation of the site in the Ayyubid period and recently the foundation of a small village.
in: Dorothée Sack, Daniela Spiegel, Martin Gussone (Hrsg.), Wohnen - Reisen - Residieren. Herrschaftliche Repräsentation zwischen temporärer Hofhaltung und dauerhafter Residenz in Orient und Okzident. Berliner Beiträge zur Bauforschung und Denkmalpflege, 2016
Die wechselhafte Geschichte Resafas spiegelt sich nicht zuletzt auch in der Stadtplanung, der Arc... more Die wechselhafte Geschichte Resafas spiegelt sich nicht zuletzt auch in der Stadtplanung, der Architektur einzelner Gebäude und dem bei Ausgrabungen registrierten Fundspektrum wider. Durch die im aktuellen Resafa-Projekt gewonnenen Forschungsergebnisse zur Stadtanlage und ihrem Umland soll dargestellt werden, wie sich die unterschiedlichen Transferprozesse und die Zugehörigkeit zu verschiedenen, übergeordneten Kulturräumen und Netzwerken in Resafa und in seinem Umlands konkret auswirkten.
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The eventful history of the settlement of Resafa is not least reflected in its urban structure and the different architecture of the city’s various buildings. The results of the archaeological project currently conducted at the site and its surroundings try to shed new light on the different transfer processes and networks converging in the city and its layout as well as its affiliation to numerous contemporary cultures.
in: Roger Matthews, John Curtis et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th IICAANE, 12.-16.04.2010, British Museum and UCL, London. Vol. 2. Islamic Archaeology (Reichert-Verlag: Wiesbaden 2012), 569-584., 2012
in: Katja Heine, Klaus Rheidt, Frank Henze, Alexandra Riedel (Hrsg.), Erfassen, Modellieren, Visualisieren. Von Handaufmaß bis High Tech 3. 3D in der historischen Bauforschung (Zabern Verlag: Mainz 2011) 209-218., 2011
Zeitschrift für Orientarchäologie 3, 2010, 102-129. , 2010
Orientalism/Architecture by Martin Gussone
in: Koldewey-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Bericht über die 44. Tagung für Ausgrabungswissenschaft und Bauforschung vom 24. bis 28. Mai 2006 in Wrocław/Breslau (Habelt-Verlag: Bonn 2008) 228-237. , 2008
in: Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, BIKA 2, (Reichert-Verlag: Wiesbaden 2010) 204-231. , 2010
in: Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatgeschichte e.V. (Hrsg.), Bad Godesberger Heimatblätter 48, 2010 (Bonn 2011) 78-95., 2011
in: Lorenz Korn, Anja Heidenreich (Hrsg.), Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft, Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, BIKA 3 (Reichert-Verlag: Wiesbaden 2012), 359-384., 2012
MSD TU Berlin | Heritage Conservation by Martin Gussone
Masterstudium Denkmalpflege an der TU Berlin, Heft 9. Jahrbuch MSD 20111-13
Masterstudium Denkmalpflege an der TU Berlin, Heft 8. Jahrbuch MSD 2010-12, 2012
Masterstudium Denkmalpflege an der TU Berlin, Heft 7. Jahrbuch MSD 2009-11, 2011
The Annual of the master's program Heritage Conservation (Masterstudium Denkmalpflege) of Ber... more The Annual of the master's program Heritage Conservation (Masterstudium Denkmalpflege) of Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin) shortly called MSD Annual is published by the Department of Building Archaeology under the direction of Professor Dorothée Sack. It ...
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al-Hira | Early Islamic Urbanism by Martin Gussone
cf. https://www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/vermessung-eines-mythos-das-atlantis-des-iraks-5232/
cf. https://antikewelt.de/2022/02/28/vermessung-eines-mythos/
cf.https://bauforschung-denkmalpflege.de/hira/
The al-Ḥīra Survey project began with a reassessment of previous research; fieldwork started with a first campaign in autumn 2015 (Müller-Wiener et al. 2015; Müller-Wiener, Gussone 2017; Müller-Wiener, Siegel 2018, cf. also Müller-Wiener et al.). This paper presents first results of the second, more comprehensive campaign conducted in the precincts of al-Najaf International Airport in October 2016, including the continuation of the archaeological surface survey (225 ha), stratigraphic survey of existing pits and investigation of surface features, magnetometer survey (75 ha) and UAV photogrammetric prospection (225 ha). Fieldwork was conducted with a multidisciplinary approach, which allows for a cross-check on the data and thus ensures a high degree of reliability.
Resafa | Early Islamic Archaeology by Martin Gussone
Interdisciplinary research of the past decade provided new results which caused the necessity to develop a new concept regarding the layout of the settlement and the caliphal residence. These results indicate that the archaeological remains in the surroundings of Resafa belong not only to the Umayyad Caliphal residence, but a multi-period settlement dating from the first half of the 6th c. and lasting until the last third of the 13th c. at least.
By analyzing the results of various archaeological prospection methods (e.g. aerial photographs, satellite images, magnetic prospecting) a more accurate picture of the settlement that existed in the surrounding areas of Resafa during different time layers can now be drawn. The present paper presents a first summary of the combined interpretation of the results of several prospections undertaken in the surroundings of Resafa, leading to a new concept of stratigraphic layers of the settlement remains, the urbanistic concept of the caliphal residence, the position of the main palace of Hisham b. Abd al-Malik in the surroundings of Resafa and the proposal to identify pre-Marwanid building structures south of the city as traces of the sedentarisation process of the Ghassanids and their elites.
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The eventful history of the settlement of Resafa is not least reflected in its urban structure and the different architecture of the city’s various buildings. The results of the archaeological project currently conducted at the site and its surroundings try to shed new light on the different transfer processes and networks converging in the city and its layout as well as its affiliation to numerous contemporary cultures.
Orientalism/Architecture by Martin Gussone
MSD TU Berlin | Heritage Conservation by Martin Gussone
cf. https://www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/vermessung-eines-mythos-das-atlantis-des-iraks-5232/
cf. https://antikewelt.de/2022/02/28/vermessung-eines-mythos/
cf.https://bauforschung-denkmalpflege.de/hira/
The al-Ḥīra Survey project began with a reassessment of previous research; fieldwork started with a first campaign in autumn 2015 (Müller-Wiener et al. 2015; Müller-Wiener, Gussone 2017; Müller-Wiener, Siegel 2018, cf. also Müller-Wiener et al.). This paper presents first results of the second, more comprehensive campaign conducted in the precincts of al-Najaf International Airport in October 2016, including the continuation of the archaeological surface survey (225 ha), stratigraphic survey of existing pits and investigation of surface features, magnetometer survey (75 ha) and UAV photogrammetric prospection (225 ha). Fieldwork was conducted with a multidisciplinary approach, which allows for a cross-check on the data and thus ensures a high degree of reliability.
Interdisciplinary research of the past decade provided new results which caused the necessity to develop a new concept regarding the layout of the settlement and the caliphal residence. These results indicate that the archaeological remains in the surroundings of Resafa belong not only to the Umayyad Caliphal residence, but a multi-period settlement dating from the first half of the 6th c. and lasting until the last third of the 13th c. at least.
By analyzing the results of various archaeological prospection methods (e.g. aerial photographs, satellite images, magnetic prospecting) a more accurate picture of the settlement that existed in the surrounding areas of Resafa during different time layers can now be drawn. The present paper presents a first summary of the combined interpretation of the results of several prospections undertaken in the surroundings of Resafa, leading to a new concept of stratigraphic layers of the settlement remains, the urbanistic concept of the caliphal residence, the position of the main palace of Hisham b. Abd al-Malik in the surroundings of Resafa and the proposal to identify pre-Marwanid building structures south of the city as traces of the sedentarisation process of the Ghassanids and their elites.
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The eventful history of the settlement of Resafa is not least reflected in its urban structure and the different architecture of the city’s various buildings. The results of the archaeological project currently conducted at the site and its surroundings try to shed new light on the different transfer processes and networks converging in the city and its layout as well as its affiliation to numerous contemporary cultures.
"Religionen und Konfessionen im 1. Weltkrieg", Kloster Plankstetten,
In this situation Max von Oppenheim suggested in autumn 1914 that the Muslim POWs should be kept in specific Muslim camps, which were then erected near Wuensdorf and Zossen south of Berlin. The camp for the British/Indian and French/North African prisoners was called ‘Halbmondlager’, the Russian/Tatarian prisoners were accommodated in a camp called ‘Weinberglager’. They were supplied with specific food, an ambitious Mosque was built in the ‘Halbmondlager’ and a Muslim cemetery was set up nearby. In addition, the POWs received religious education and great efforts went into massive agitation to join the Great War against Great Britain and France. The Russian/Tatarian POWs, however, were considered too unreliable to be agitated.
Oppenheims proposal for a Muslim POW camp was part of the Jihad strategy, which was organised by his ‘Nachrichtenstelle für den Orient’, and was intended to agitate the Muslim population of the British and French colonies. The expected uprisings were supposed to weaken the armies of the Entente in their colonies needed in the European theatres of war.
The practical use of the Muslim POW camps to recruit volunteers against Great Britain and France can be regarded as having failed. On the other side the propagandistic advantages of this exotic realization of Oppenheim’s Jihad strategy were obviously of great value. To the international community it demonstrated the fair treatment of the POWs, which was a matter of discussion again and again. It also raised as a severe threat the issue, if the military units from the colonies would stand to their forced loyalty. Finally its Orientalistic reminiscences served to gain acceptance for the ‘Preußisch-Osmanische Waffenbrüderschaft’ within Germany.
In this context remote sensing methods can serve as an additional corrective and help to gather further information. The analysis of aerial photographs and satellite images (e. g. A. Poidebard; CORONA) is a standard method of Middle Eastern archaeology. In Islamic archaeology, however, they are applied mainly to explore prominent monuments or sites such as Samarra (A. Northedge), Raqqa (J. Henderson / K. Challis, U. seal) or Resafa (D. Sack, M. Gussone), where the existence of extensive settlement is already known, and on-site investigations are already taking place. The difficulty in the application of remote sensing methods on smaller structures lies in the fact that these can be confused with natural phenomena or recent disturbances. Therefore methods of remote sensing and the interpretation of data from aerial photographs and satellite images are usually combined with other methods of prospection (eg, survey, magnetic prospecting, acquisition of surface findings etc.) up to archaeological sondages, in order to verify them on the site. Finally chronological evidence is also to be gained in most cases only through surveys and sondages.
The connection of remote sensing methods and the analysis of the reports of the early explorers can be used as another complementary practice to confirm results, and to identify archaeological sites. This approach seems to be all the more relevant since many of the relevant sites are located in areas that are difficult to access, a situation that is only exacerbated by the current political situation. Using the example of some sites in North-eastern Syria and Mesopotamia the present paper demonstrates for one thing that some myths of the early explorers are to be corrected. For another thing it shows – despite of some scepticism regarding the identification of places by methods of remote sensing which require verification on site – that by combining the reports of early expeditions with remote sensing methods new evidence can be obtained and exploratory studies undertaken to prepare further research in the field.
Zu Beginn der 1950er Jahre wurden einzelne Anlagen archäologisch untersucht, seit Ende der 1970er Jahre wird das ca. 6 km² große Ruinengelände durch verschiedene Prospektionsmethoden systematisch erschlossen. Dazu gehören mehrere Surveys mit unterschiedlichen Zielstellungen, geophysikalische Prospektionen (magnetische Prospektionen, Erdwiderstandsmessungen, Georadar), die Aufnahme von Oberflächenbefunden und Luftbildern sowie Geländemessungen für digitale Geländemodelle.
Im Rahmen der unter der Leitung von Dorothée Sack (TU Berlin) seit 2006 laufenden Projektphase 'Pilgerstadt und Kalifenresidenz' (DAI) werden neben gezielten Sondagen an einzelnen Fundplätzen auch die Ergebnisse der unterschiedlichen Prospektionsmethoden für größere Bereiche der Siedlung im Umland von Resafa zusammengeführt. Die kombinierte Auswertung der einzelnen Ergebnisse ist besonders vielversprechend, da sich die archäologischen Befunde im Ergebnis der einzelnen Prospektionen sehr verschieden abbilden. Jede der eingesetzten Methoden hat systembedingte Potentiale und Begrenzungen, durch die Überlagerung der Einzelergebnisse konnten unklare Bereiche abgeglichen und ergänzt sowie eine Reihe von bislang unbekannten Fundplätzen und Siedlungsstrukturen erfasst werden. Für bestimmte Bereiche ließen sich sogar relative Chronologien der Siedlungsabfolge ermitteln. Im Rahmen der Auswertung zeigte sich, dass nicht eine Methode einer anderen vorzuziehen, sondern vielmehr ein multidisziplinärer Ansatz zielführend ist und durch die systematische Verbindung der verschiedenen Methoden neue Erkenntnisse zu erzielen sind. Die Auswertung der Prospektionsdaten ist noch nicht abgeschlossen, doch ist bereits abzusehen, dass durch die kombinierte Auswertung unsere Kenntnis der Siedlungsstrukturen im Umland von Resafa entscheidend erweitert wird und Grundlagen für weiterführende Fragestellungen geschaffen werden.
Der Vortrag stellt die Anwendung der verschiedenen Prospektionsmethoden in Resafa vor, zeigt wesentliche neue Ergebnisse und lotet die Potentiale und Begrenzungen der jeweiligen Methoden aus."
17. Dezember, TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 152, Forum Architektur 1. OG,
18. Dezember, Archäologisches Zentrum, Geschwister Scholl Str. 6, Brugsch-Pascha Saal
Kufa, Basra, Mosul, Bagdad - die bedeutenden Stadtgründungen frühislamischer Zeit liegen im Gebiet des heutigen Irak. Da archäologische Feldforschungen im Irak erst seit wenigen Jahren wieder möglich sind, ist der Nachholbedarf enorm und das Interesse groß.
Das Museum für Islamische Kunst, die TU Berlin und das Deutsche Archäologische Institut veranstalten am 17. und 18. Dezember einen internationalen Workshop, der aktuelle Forschungsprojekte aus dem Bereich der frühislamischen Stadtarchäologie vorstellt. Schwerpunktthemen sind die Weiternutzung und Transformation bestehender städtischer Zentren sowie die Rolle von Klöstern und Kirchen in der spätantiken Stadtlandschaft Mesopotamiens
Funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
MONDAY 17.12.2018
Venue: TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 152, Forum Architektur, 1st Floor
9:00–9:15 Welcome
Dean Prof. Dr. Johann Köppel (TU Berlin, Fakultät 6 – School of Planning, Building and Environment)
Dr. Dr. hc. Margarete van Ess (DAI Berlin)
Muhammad Bidan (State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Iraq)
9:15–10:45 Introduction and Historical Context
PD Dr. Martina Müller-Wiener (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
Early Islamic Urbanism in Mesopotamia - Introduction
Prof. Dr. Isabelle Toral-Niehoff (FU Berlin)
Al-Hira as reflected in the written sources. The state of the question
Dr. Hasan al-Hakim (Najaf)
Religions in Pre-Islamic and Early-Islamic Hira
10:45–11:00 Discussion
Coffee break 11:00–11:30
11:30–13:00 al-Hira - Recent Research
Diya Makki al Talanki (State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Najaf)
Results of the excavations in al-Hira 2007–2011: Ceramics
Muhammad Bidan (State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, Najaf)
Recent large scale rescue excavations of ancient al-Hira: overview
Dr.-Ing. des. Martin Gussone (TU Berlin)
Settlement research on al-Hira based on surface survey and aerial photograph interpretation
13:00–13:30 Discussion
13:30–15:00 Lunch break
15:00–16:00 al-Hira - Recent Research
Abdul Razzaq Alesi
Churches in al-Hira
Prof. Dr. Barbara Finster (Bamberg)
The churches of al-Qusair in the context of Mesopotamian church-architecture
16:00–16:30 Discussion
19:00 Evening Lecture (Berliner Kolloquium. baugeschichte - bauforschung - denkmalpflege)
Welcome: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thekla Schulz-Brize (TU Berlin, FG Historische Bauforschung und Baudenkmalpflege)
Venue: TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 152, Lecture hall A 053
Dr. Dr. hc. Margarete van Ess, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Orient Abteilung;
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Ziegert, ZRS Ingenieure Berlin)
Preservation of the Iraqi archaeological architectural heritage. Current conservation projects in Uruk (southern Iraq)
TUESDAY, 18.12.2018
Venue: Archäologisches Zentrum (Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Geschwister Scholl Str. 6, Brugsch-Pascha Saal
9:45-10:00
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
10:0-11:30
Early Islamic Urbanism in Mesopotamia: Perspectives
Prof. Dr. Karel Novaçek (Palacky University, Olomouc)
Monastic landscape of Adiabene
Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Siegel (DAI Berlin)
Recent prospections in Tulul al-Ukhaidir
Prof. Dr. Andrew Petersen (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Old-Basra, New Plan – The evolution of an Early Islamic City
11:30-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30
Andrea Luigi Corsi, (Sapienza University of Rome)
Regional and transregional exchanges: Comparing Late Umayyad and Early Abbasid stucco productions to the finds from al-Hira
Dr. Marie-Odile Rousset (Laboratoire Archéorient, Lyon)
Al-Hira viewed from Late antique and early Islamic Syria
PD Dr. Arnulf Hausleiter (DAI Berlin)
Arabian origins? Tracing early Islamic urbanism
14:30-15:00 Discussion
15:15–15:45
Round Table Coffee Break with final discussion and concluding remarks
Workshop organised by:
Museum für Islamische Kunst
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
D-10117 Berlin
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
Orient-Abteilung
Podbielski-Allee 69-71
D-14195 Berlin
Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
FG Historische Bauforschung und Baudenkmalpflege
Straße des 17.Juni 152
D-10623 Berlin
Contact Organisation and Coordination:
Martina Müller-Wiener m.mueller-wiener@smb.spk-berlin.de
Martin Gussone martin.gussone@tu-berlin.de
Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium am 27. November 2015, 9.00-18.30 Uhr, an der TU Berlin, Architekturgebäude, Raum A060,
veranstaltet vom FG Historische Bauforschung/TU Berlin (Martin Gussone/Anne Mollenhauer) und dem Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (Katharina Lange).
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem SFB 1070 „Ressourcenkulturen/Universität Tübingen und dem Österreichischen Archäologischen Institut, Wien.
Gefördert durch die Fritz Thssen Stiftung.
Das geplante Kolloquium nimmt die potentiellen Berührungspunkte, Schnittstellen (und Abgrenzungen) zwischen den benachbarten Disziplinen Archäologie/Historische Bauforschung und Ethnologie in den Blick, wobei ihr Potenzial, aber auch ihre Grenzen hinsichtlich eines engeren und systematischeren Austausches zwischen diesen Disziplinen befragt werden
sollen.
Vertreten sind Beiträge zu den folgenden thematischen Schwerpunkten:
Kooperationen zwischen den Fächern und gängige Forschungspraktiken, die Vermittlerrolle lokaler Experten, der methodische und theoretische Austausch sowie die Relevanz politischer Dimensionen.
N. Burkhardt, Historische Zeitschrift, 2019, Vol.309(1), pp.165-168
P. Maranzana, American Journal of Archaeology, 4/2019, Vol.123(2)
https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/3856
E. Zanini, Medioevo Greco 19, 2019, 453-455
https://www.academia.edu/41221431/Reviev_of_Efthymios_Rizos_ed._New_Cities_in_Late_Antiquity._Documents_and_Archaeology_Turnhout_2017
M. Sartre, in Syria 96 (2019)
https://journals.openedition.org/syria/8971
agglomerations of large complexes with open spaces in between, the western part shows a dense urban network with streets and residential structures. This situation can be linked to the evaluation of surface finds. In the central survey-area, finds of the 6th -8th c. dominate, while those from the 9th c. prevail in the west. It is suggested that the large complexes correspond to the qusur of al-Hira mentioned by Arabic sources and the urban network belongs to an early Islamic building phase. This means that, contrary to the prevailing interpretation of al-Hira being abandoned after the foundation of al-Kufa, it saw a period of urban growth under the early Abbasids.