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PEERING INTO THE DUSTY CORNERS: MICRO-DEBRIS ANALYSIS AND USE OF SPACE AT THE SITE OF ABU TBEIRAH (NASIRIYAH, IRAQ)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2018

Susanna Cereda  and
Licia Romano
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Abstract

Excavations carried out in the last five years by “La Sapienza” University of Rome and Iraqi teams at the site of Abu Tbeirah (Nasiriyah, Iraq) exposed a large multi-phased mud-brick building (Building A), internally articulated into various rooms with different purposes, which probably hosted a wide range of activities. This building presents an opportunity to investigate the use of these spaces in order to glimpse the daily life and the socio-economic structure of its past inhabitants. In this paper we present the preliminary outcomes of this study, based on the results of a micro-debris analysis that looked at the distribution of the material residues embedded within the floor of Room 5 of the building.

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IRAQ , Volume 80 , December 2018 , pp. 79 - 111
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2018 

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Cereda is the author of Sections 1.2, 1.3, 3, 4 and 5; Romano of Sections 1.1 and 2; while Section 6 is the joint work of both authors.

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