Badia and maamoura, the Jawlan/Hawran regions during the Bronze Age: landscapes and hypothetical territories.

Frank Braemer (1)

1 CEPAM - Centre d'Études Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age

30 years after S. Helms's paper "Land behind Damascus: Urbanism during the 4th Millenium in Syria/Palestine.", new fields works and surveys allow the definition of specific landscapes (from the basaltic Hawran and Jawlan to the Kalamun mountains) in which the physical setting induces particular systems of water management and agricultural or pastoral organization. On one another hand, an analysis of architectural techniques and forms, pottery exchanges, lithics, defines "archaeological territories" or "cultural entities". The topic of people mobility between territories is central. Changes which occurred during the Bronze Age are pointed out, and a historical frame for the 4th and the 3rd millennia proposed.

30 ans après l'article de S. Helms "Land behind Damascus: Urbanism during the 4th Millenium in Syria/Palestine.", les dernières prospections et fouilles en Syrie du Sud permettent de proposer une définition des différents terroirs du Jawlan et du Hawran basaltiques jusqu'au massif du Kalamun. Les particularités physiques de chacun de ces terroirs induisent des systèmes adaptés de gestion de l'eau et d'organisation agricole et pastorale. Par ailleurs, une analyse de l'habitat et des échanges d'artefacts permet de caractériser des " territoires archéologiques " ou " entités culturelles ". Les changements intervenant au cours des IVe et IIIe millénaires sont mis en relief et un cadre " historique " est proposé.

Mots clés: Near East; Early Bronze age; territories; settlement patterns

Mots clés: Proche-Orient; Bronze ancien; territoires; occupation su sol

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Frank Braemer. Badia and maamoura, the Jawlan/Hawran regions during the Bronze Age: landscapes and hypothetical territories.. Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire, 2011, 88, pp.31-46. ⟨halshs-00696913⟩