Presentations -

Excavations at Shakar Tepe

T. Odaka, O. Maeda, T. Miki, Y. S. Hayakawea, Y. Itahashi, R. K. Salih, H. Hama Gharib

Bestansur Community Event 2023, 

2023.09

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Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

Mortuary archaeological landscapes and their background at the canyon of Al-Hajar mountains: Results of surveys in the Tanūf District 2022-2023

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Kantaro Tanabe, Yasuhisa Kondo

The 56th Seminar for Arabian Studies (Aarhus) , 

2023.08

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Oral presentation (general), Moesgaard Museum and Aarhus University

西アジア銅石器時代・先史イランにおける人間といきものの絡まり合い

三木健裕

【シンポジウム】西アジアのいきものを巡る歴史と文化 (池袋サンシャインシティ・ワールドインポートマートビル・コンファレンスルーム Room14およびオンライン) , 

2023.07

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated), 古代オリエント博物館

イラン南西部ファールス地方新石器時代の土器を再考する：タル・イ・ムシュキ、タル・イ・ジャリB遺跡を中心に

三木健裕

日本西アジア考古学会第28回総会・大会 (白鷗大学) , 

2023.06

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Oral presentation (general), 日本西アジア考古学会

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イラン南西部では新石器時代が始まった紀元前7千年紀後半から6千年紀前半にかけて、文様の違いをもとにムシュキ期、ジャリ期が設定されてきた。だが近年では両者の間にバシ期を設定するなど、時期区分に関して議論されている。しかし時期区分の議論から一歩離れた場合、こうした土器の変遷は当時の社会・生活の変化のいったい何を反映しているのだろうか。本発表では東京大学総合研究博物館所蔵のタル・イ・ムシュキとタル・イ・ジャリB両遺跡出土土器の再検討を通じて、土器変遷とその背景に新たな光を当てる。

シャイフ・マリフ遺跡II号丘の年代について

小髙 敬寛, 下釜 和也, 三木 健裕, 板橋 悠

日本西アジア考古学会第28回総会・大会 (白鷗大学) , 

2023.06

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Oral presentation (general), 日本西アジア考古学会

オマーン・タヌーフ峡谷の中期青銅器時代集葬墓：型式と構築背景の検討

黒沼 太一, 三木 健裕, 田邉 幹太郎, 近藤 康久

日本西アジア考古学会第28回総会・大会 (白鷗大学) , 

2023.06

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Poster presentation, 日本西アジア考古学会

Petrographic and geochemical analyses of potsherds from Wadi Tanuf, Oman: Approaching pottery production in southeastern Arabia during the second and first millennia BCE

Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Brandi MacDonald, Michael Glascock, Yasuhisa Kondo

EMAC2023 (European Meeting on Ancient Ceramics) (Pisa) , 

2023.06

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Poster presentation, ICCOM-CNR-Pisa (Italian National Research Council, Institute of Chemistry and OganoMetallic Compounds)

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This presentation explores the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of the pottery collected from two sites in Wadi Tanuf, Oman–––the cave of Mugharat al-Kahf belonging to the Middle Bronze Age (Wadi Suq period, c. 2000-1600 BCE) and WTN02 in the Early Iron Age (c. 1300-650 BCE). The aim of this research is to clarify interregional similarities and differences in pottery production techniques in southeastern Arabia and examine the long-distance trade of pottery, thereby exploring mobile communities in these periods. We conducted an analysis of thin-section petrography and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of ceramic samples from these sites. The petrographic result indicates that various types of clay sources and tempers were utilized in the Middle Bronze Age. On the other hand, there is a region-wide similarity in tempering specific minerals (Oman ophiolite) in the Early Iron Age. The geochemical result suggests the difference in clay sources between the Middle Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Wadi Tanuf, and the unlikeliness of the interregional trade of ordinary pottery throughout southeastern Arabia. These results will contribute to understanding differences in interregional interaction and the knowledge transfer of pottery production techniques between the Middle Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Furthermore, the differences between these two periods will shed new light on the socio-economic transformation during the second and first millennia BCE.

A new Ubaid ceramic assemblage in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan

Takehiro MIKI, Kazuya Shimogama

13th ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) (Copenhagen) , 

2023.05

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Oral presentation (general), University of Copenhagen

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The Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, lies between the Mesopotamian lowlands and the Zagros highlands. The location of this intermontane plain is significant in discussing the expansion process of the Ubaid black-on-buff ceramics into the Zagros Mountains and the subsequent regionalization from the Late Ubaid (c. 4900-4500 BCE) to LC1 (c. 4500-4200 BCE). However, the number of excavated Ubaid sites in the Shahrizor Plain is still limited compared to the northern part of Iraqi Kurdistan. Even though previous studies found Ubaid layers from excavations in the southern part of Kurdistan, the ceramic information during the Late Ubaid is largely preliminary.
This presentation reports the first assessment of a new Ubaid ceramic assemblage discovered from Shakar Tepe (SSP24) in the Shahrizor Plain, southern Iraqi Kurdistan, focusing mainly on its ware types, vessel forms, and petrographic groups. Through the detailed ceramic analyses and intersite comparisons, we examine the relative chronology of the Ubaid layers at Shakar Tepe and discuss the regional interactions and settlement dynamics in the Ubaid period of the Shahrizor Plain.

Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Excavations at Shaikh Marif, the first season (2022)

Takahiro Odaka, Osamu Maeda, Takehiro Miki, Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Perween Yewer, Hussein Hama Gharib

13th ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) 2023年5月22日 University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen) , 

2023.05

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Oral presentation (general), University of Copenhagen

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The Shahrizor Plain is an intermontane valley located in the eastern part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, where its local prehistory has gradually come into view through various ongoing investigations. As to the chronology of late prehistory, however, there are some ill-defined archaeological gaps we have to fill in. One of these gaps lies in the early 6th millennium cal. BC. In order to approach this issue, new excavations began at Shaikh Marif in 2022, following at Shakar Tepe in 2019. The 2022 season’s work successfully recovered the cultural deposit which yielded a distinctive artefact assemblage from the Late Neolithic period. The dates can be estimated as around 6000 cal. BC, filling a part of the chronological gap in the archaeological record of the local late prehistory.

南東アラビアにおける先史時代の利水と治水の考古地理学的事例

近藤康久, 三木健裕, 黒沼太一

日本地球惑星科学連合2023年大会 (幕張メッセ国際会議場＆オンライン) , 

2023.05

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Poster presentation, 日本地球惑星科学連合

時を彩る 先史イラン彩文土器の世界

三木健裕

東京大学総合研究博物館小石川分館 ソトラボ第8回土器トーク (東京大学総合研究博物館小石川分館) , 

2023.05

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Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, 東京大学総合研究博物館小石川分館

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およそ8000年前から6000年前にかけて、イラン南西部の農耕村落では独特の文様が表面に描かれた彩文土器がつくられ、当時の暮らしに彩りを与えていました。今回は本館が所蔵するイラン先史時代の彩文土器コレクションを紹介するとともに、村落での暮らしが変化していくようすを彩文土器から探ってみたいと思います。

Bronze and Iron Age tombs at the foot of the Al-Hajar Mountains: A case study from the surveys in the Tanuf District, North-Central Oman

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

Symposium of Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations Cultural Resources, Kanazawa University Archaeology of Tombs in the Arabian Peninsula, 

2023.03

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Oral presentation (general)

Early Iron Age Landscape in an Inland Piedmont Area: A Case Study in the Wadi al-Abyad Basin (Ad-Dakhiliyah Governorate, Oman)

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

ASOR (American Society of Overseas Research) Virtual Annual Meeting 2022, 

2022.10

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Oral presentation (general)

Social changes and maintenance in inner Southeast Arabia during the Wādī Sūq period: A case study of Bāt, Sultanate of Oman

Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki, Yasuhisa Kondo

55th Seminar for Arabian Studies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) , 

2022.08

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Oral presentation (general), International Association for the Study of Arabia

Culinary practices of the Chalcolithic period in southwestern Iran: lipid analysis of the pottery from Tall-e Gap

Takehiro Miki, Kazuya Shimogama, Nobuo MIYAUCHI, Akiko Horiuchi, Yoshiki Miyata

Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology, 27th Annual Meeting, 

2022.07

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Oral presentation (general)

Hakra wares in the Upper Sindh region, Pakistan: A Preliminary Analysis

Takehiro Miki, Atsushi Noguchi, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Carla Lancerotti, Marco Madella, Amin Chandio, Abro Tasleem, Ghulam M. Veesar

European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art 25th Conference Barcelona, 

2022.07

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Poster presentation

Modeling the Agricultural Origins of South Asia Urbanism Project - New excavations and data from settlements of the Indus alluvial plain and of the edge of the Thar Desert

Marco Madella, Tasleem Abro, Carla Lancelotti, M. Veesar, Carolina Jiménez, Oscar Parque, Amin Chandio, N Naz Larik, Takehiro Miki, Atsushi Noguchi

European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art 25th Conference Barcelona, 

2022.07

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Oral presentation (general)

Exploring Human Activities in a Canyon of Southeastern Arabia: Excavations at Mugharat al-Kahf Cave, Oman in 2017-2020

Takehiro MIKI, Taichi KURONUMA, Hiroyuki KITAGAWA, Yasuhisa KONDO

第 29 回西アジア発掘調査報告会 (Hiroshima) , 

2022.03

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Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech, 日本西アジア考古学会

Painted Pottery Networks during the 5th Millennium BCE in Southern Iran

Takehiro MIKI

8th International Congress of Young Archaeologists (Iran), 

2022.02

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Oral presentation (general)

Towards clarifying the pottery production in the Wadi Suq period of southeastern Arabia: Geochemical analysis of the pottery from Mugharat al-Kahf, Oman

Takehiro Miki

「中東部族社会の起源」第3回シンポジウム 『湾岸地域における青銅器時代遊牧民墓域の型式・構成・背景』, 

2022.02

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Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)