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It's long been debated how urbanisation in the ancient past should be defined. However, there us a general consensus on which characteristics made a settlement urban. In northwestern Arabia the lack of data on Bronze Age residential sites has made the subject all the more complicated in that region. Now, the discovery and partial excavation of al-Natah in the Khaybar Oasis has provided archaeologists with new and important information on urbanisation in northwestern Arabia and how this may have been influenced by similar settlements in the Southern Levant. In this video I discuss the paper detailing the work that's been carried out at al-Natah.
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01:31 The Oasis of Khaybar
03:11 Al-Natah
06:28 Low Urbanisation
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Charloux, G., Shabo, S., Depreux, B., Colin, S., Guadagnini, K., Guermont, F., Dupuy, S., Bussy, M., Bec Drelon, N., Poulmarc’h, M. and Albukaai, D., 2024. A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia. PloS one, 19(10), p.e0309963.
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Images of al-Natah, credit: Charloux, G., et al. reprinted with permission from AFALULA-RCU-CNRS, 2024 in the paper referenced above. above.
It's long been debated how urbanisation in the ancient past should be defined. However, there us a general consensus on which characteristics made a settlement urban. In northwestern Arabia the lack of data on Bronze Age residential sites has made the subject all the more complicated in that region. Now, the discovery and partial excavation of al-Natah in the Khaybar Oasis has provided archaeologists with new and important information on urbanisation in northwestern Arabia and how this may have been influenced by similar settlements in the Southern Levant. In this video I discuss the paper detailing the work that's been carried out at al-Natah.
#archaeology #bronzeage #realarchaeology
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
01:31 The Oasis of Khaybar
03:11 Al-Natah
06:28 Low Urbanisation
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✨ REFERENCES
Charloux, G., Shabo, S., Depreux, B., Colin, S., Guadagnini, K., Guermont, F., Dupuy, S., Bussy, M., Bec Drelon, N., Poulmarc’h, M. and Albukaai, D., 2024. A Bronze Age town in the Khaybar walled oasis: Debating early urbanization in Northwestern Arabia. PloS one, 19(10), p.e0309963.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images of al-Natah, credit: Charloux, G., et al. reprinted with permission from AFALULA-RCU-CNRS, 2024 in the paper referenced above. above.
