Publishing Kenan Tepe with Open Context
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We’re very pleased to announce the publication of a significant portion of the Kenan Tepe excavations. Excavations at Kenan Tepe, directed by Bradley Parker (University of Utah) and co-directed by Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Southern California), represent part of the investigations of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP). UTARP organized major excavation and survey programs aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in an area that was, for much of Mesopotamian history, a frontier zone between the centralized states of Mesopotamia and the much less centralized cultures of its Anatolian periphery.
This initial release of Kenan Tepe data in Open Context represents the first installment of data and includes all Area F records where UTARP team members excavated twenty-two trenches of various sizes and depths in an effort to illuminate remains dating to the Late Chalcolithic period and Early Bronze Age at the site. Excavation records from further areas will be added in the near future to Open context and will be followed by the print publication of several final report volumes in the next few years.
UTARP’s Area F data from Kenan Tepe can be accessed at the Alexandria Archive Institute’s Open Context website.
Because the UTARP team had excellent data management, it was possible to more fully use many of Open Context’s features not commonly used in other projects. Archaeological documentation draws upon diverse structured data (esp. tabular data), less structured texts (diaries, journals), and media (drawings, photos, and other media types). The UTARP team kept excellent records and had very clear file-naming conventions that allowed us to link all of these different types of documentation together. This makes it easier to organize and navigate this large body of content. For example, one can follow links from top-plans to see day-to-day progress in excavation. See this example.
| Project | Description | Primary People | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenan Tepe | The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project’s Excavations at Kenan Tepe in Southeastern Turkey | Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb | Ubaid Period, Late Chalcolithic Period, Anatolia, Northern Mesopotamia, Middle Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Tigris River, Archaeology |
| Dhiban Excavation and Development Project | [Forthcoming Project] Archaeology of an Early Bronze through Islamic settlement south of Amman, Jordan | Benjamin Porter, Bruce Routledge, Danielle S. Fatkin, Katherine Adelsberger | Archaeology, Jordan, Early Bronze Age, Iron Age, Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, geology, anthropology, tourism studies, history |
| Tal-e Malyan Zooarchaeology | Zooarchaeology of Tel-e Malyan | Melinda A. Zeder | Zooarchaeology, subsistence, economy, Early Bronze Age, Iranian Plateau, Elamite, Anshan, Middle Elamite |
| Zooarchaeology of Medieval Emden | Animal Bone Analysis in medieval Emden, Germany | Jessica Grimm | zooarchaeology, medieval, Lower Saxony, Germany, subsistence, |
| Chogha Mish Fauna | Zooarchaeological observations from Prehistoric and Achaemenid levels at Chogha Mish, Iran. | Levent Atici, Justin S.E. Lev-Tov, Sarah Whitcher Kansa | Zooarchaeology, subsistence, economy, Early Bronze Age, Iranian Plateau, Elamite |
| Khirbat al-Mudayna al-Aliya | Investigations of an Early Iron Age site in a semi-arid zone in west-central Jordan | Bruce Routledge, Benjamin Porter | pastoralism, economy, agriculture, Southern Levant, Semi-Arid, Kerak Plateau, Jordan, Iron I, Early Iron Age, subsistence |
| Dove Mountain Groundstone | Analysis of groundstone finds from the Dove Mountain Project in the Tucson Basin | Jenny Adams | Southwest, Pioneer Period, Sedentary Period, Hohokam, Early Agricultural, Groundstone, Arizona, Archaeology |
| Bade Museum | Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology | Aaron Brody | Israel, Palestine, Southern Levant, Judah, Near East, Biblical Archaeology, Archaeology, Iron Age, 1st Millennium, 4th Millennium, Early Bronze, Town, Tomb, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine |
| San Diego Archaeological Center | Collections maintained by the San Diego Archaeological Center | San Diego Archaeological Center | historical archaeology, San Diego, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, finds catalog, education, cultural resource management, archaeological collections |
| Presidio of San Francisco | Ongoing investigations of El Presidio de San Francisco and other archaeological resources at the Presidio of San Francisco | Presidio Archaeology Lab (Presidio Trust) | historical archaeology, presidio, San Francisco, California, Spanish colonial, Mexican, US Army, education |
| Aegean Archaeomalacology | Mollusk Shells in Troia, Yenibademli, and Ulucak:An Archaeomalacological Approach toEnvironment and Economy in the Aegean | Canan Çakırlar | Anatolia, Aegean, bronze age, chalcolithic, mollusks, Archaeomalacology, subsistence, economy, environment |
| Petra Great Temple Excavations | Brown University Excavations at the Great Temple of Petra, Jordan | Martha Sharp Joukowsky | Religion, Hellenistic, Jordan, Roman, Roman Empire, Archaeology, Architecture, Nabateans, Nabatean, Petra |
| Iraq Heritage Program | Overview of the Global Heritage Fund's conservation work in Iraq | Global Heritage Fund, Alexandria Archive Institute | Meopotamia, Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Assyria, Sumer, Babylonia, Documentation, Sumer, Archaeology, Iron Age, Early Bronze Age, Early Dynastic, World Heritage |
| Lake Carlos Beach Site, 1992 and 1996 | Descriptions and provenience information for 7837 artifacts | State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, Minnesota State Parks Cultural Resource Management Program staff, State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation | |
| Corneal Ulceration in South East Asia | Epidemiology and Etiology of Corneal Ulcers in South India | Mathuiah Srinivasan, John P. Whitcher | ophthalmology, India, public health, infections disease, eye, public health, developing world |
| Harvard Peabody Mus. Zooarchaeology | Harvard Peabody Museum Zooarchaeology Laboratory Reference Collection | Richard Meadow, Levent Atici | archaeology, reference collection, zoology, zooarchaeology, archaeology, specimen, bone |
| Hazor: Zooarchaeology | Zooarchaeological observations for Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Hazor, Israel | Justin Lev-Tov | archaeology, Iron Age, Late Bronze Age, Near East, Excavations, Hazor, Biblical archaeology, subsistence |
| Hayonim: Micromorphology | Paul Goldberg | archaeology, Mousterian, geology, Middle Paleolithic, Kebaran, Epi-Paleolithic, Israel, Levant, Micromorphology, Geology, Cave, Deposition | |
| Geissenklosterle: Micromorphology | Paul Goldberg | archaeology, Aurignation, geology, Upper Paleolithic, Europe, Germany | |
| Pınarbaşı 1994: Animal Bones | Analysis of faunal remains from prehistoric contexts at Pınarbaşı in central Turkey | Denise Carruthers | archaeology, Epi-Paleolithic, Neolithic, Near East, Anatolia, Turkey, zooarchaeology, Pinarbasi, 9th millennium, agriculture, foraging, hunting |
| Domuztepe Excavations | Excavations of a Late Neolithic site in south-central Turkey | Stuart Campbell, Elizabeth Carter | Archaeology, Halaf, Neolithic, Near East, Excavations, Domuztepe, 7th millennium, Village |
