Marta Luciani
Professor Marta Luciani studied at the University of Padua, obtained her PhD at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples and post-graduate specialization in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Pisa. From the University of Vienna, she holds the venia docendi Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History (2007).
Since 2004 she teaches at the University of Vienna. In 2016 she was Adjunct Professor at NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient Word (ISAW).
She heads field work in Iraq (NW Sulaimaniyah Survey and Chemchemal), Saudi Arabia (Qurayyah) and on finds from Nuzi at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
She organized and published the proceedings of international symposia on the Archaeology of Arabia (2013, 2016 and 2018) and on Late Bronze Age pottery studies (2014). She created the interdisciplinary study group: Pottery Production and Exchange Networks in Ancient Arabia and the Near East https://hist-kult.univie.ac.at/forschung/forscherinnengruppen/pottery-production-and-exchange-networks-in-ancient-arabia-and-the-near-east/
Since 2004 she teaches at the University of Vienna. In 2016 she was Adjunct Professor at NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient Word (ISAW).
She heads field work in Iraq (NW Sulaimaniyah Survey and Chemchemal), Saudi Arabia (Qurayyah) and on finds from Nuzi at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.
She organized and published the proceedings of international symposia on the Archaeology of Arabia (2013, 2016 and 2018) and on Late Bronze Age pottery studies (2014). She created the interdisciplinary study group: Pottery Production and Exchange Networks in Ancient Arabia and the Near East https://hist-kult.univie.ac.at/forschung/forscherinnengruppen/pottery-production-and-exchange-networks-in-ancient-arabia-and-the-near-east/
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been repeatedly described as one of the largest and most significant oases of Northwestern
Arabia. Human occupation in the oasis started at least from the early Holocene and
continued to the Nabatean, Roman and late Byzantine period. The hydrologically favored
position results from its specific geomorphological location where the plateaus fade towards
the east and the landscape opens towards the Tabuk Basin so that a balanced water supply
was ensured. We present a geomorphological map (1:20,000; main map) based on the
interpretation of a high-resolution satellite image and detailed control in the field. The map
integrates archaeological, hydraulic and natural features in order to show how the people at
Qurayyah structured their landscape and developed water management strategies in relation
to prevailing geomorphological processes during the incipient phase (Bronze Age) of the oasis.
representing naked women is proposed. A re-evaluation of their number, size, manufacture,
circulation and find context leads us to see them as the material correlate of
social events and emblem of women’s important role in society in early 2nd mill. BCE
South Mesopotamia.
been repeatedly described as one of the largest and most significant oases of Northwestern
Arabia. Human occupation in the oasis started at least from the early Holocene and
continued to the Nabatean, Roman and late Byzantine period. The hydrologically favored
position results from its specific geomorphological location where the plateaus fade towards
the east and the landscape opens towards the Tabuk Basin so that a balanced water supply
was ensured. We present a geomorphological map (1:20,000; main map) based on the
interpretation of a high-resolution satellite image and detailed control in the field. The map
integrates archaeological, hydraulic and natural features in order to show how the people at
Qurayyah structured their landscape and developed water management strategies in relation
to prevailing geomorphological processes during the incipient phase (Bronze Age) of the oasis.
representing naked women is proposed. A re-evaluation of their number, size, manufacture,
circulation and find context leads us to see them as the material correlate of
social events and emblem of women’s important role in society in early 2nd mill. BCE
South Mesopotamia.
Spanning a chronological range from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) to the Islamic period and encompassing regions from the south-eastern tip to the north-eastern corner of the subcontinent, from Oman to the Negev and the Red Sea, we commit to reconstructing a broader, more interconnected picture of the archaeology of this underexplored, vast territorial expanse.
In this edition we discuss the formation of the oldest peri-maritime settled communities of the Neolithic and investigate similarities and dissimilarities in landmarks, territorial appropriation and environmental conditions of the Early Bronze Age funerary landscape (al-Kharj oasis) and the settlement landscape created by the early-3rd-millennium-BCE emergence of Hejazi ‘urbanism’ in the most ancient mega sites of the peninsula, the famous walled oases of Qurayyah and Tayma. We highlight the varied modalities of cultic landscapes of nomadic pastoral peoples in the Negev and Oman and the symbolic value of copper-alloy metallurgy, and investigate epigraphic and regional trade connections and routes throughout an extended region, as well as the formation of mining landscapes and specialised sites for the selective exploitation of mineral resources such as copper, silver and gold (Al-Baha area).
The book offers the first answers to questions of agency, networks, chronologies and the complex legacy of reconstructing history based on Greek, Roman and the chequered local epigraphic evidence.