Barda Balka: 31 (Oriental Institute Communications) - Softcover

Howe, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614910006 ISBN 13: 9781614910008

Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2014

Synopsis

The Paleolithic site of Barda Balka (standing stone, stone to lean upon in local Kurdish) is situated about 3 kilometers northeast of Chemchemal in Kirkuk Province, Iraq. Until recent years, the site was marked by a natural monolith of limestone conglomerate 3.5 meters high on a rather barren slope partly littered with Acheulean-type bifaces, pebble tools, cores, and flake artifacts. The site was discovered in 1949 by members of the Directorate General of Antiquities of Iraq while on archaeological reconnaissance in the district. In 1951, during a field season of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago under the direction of Robert J. Braidwood (which not only conducted the excavations at nearby Jarmo and Karim Shahir but also carried out wider geological and prehistoric reconnaissance in the extended Chemchemal Valley area), Barda Balka was visited and further studied by Herbert E. Wright Jr. of the University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Bruce Howe, then of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Wright and Howe returned shortly thereafter to conduct a four-day sounding campaign of trenching and localized geological investigations. This volume is Howes final report of these investigations at Barda Balka.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1614910006
• ISBN 13: 9781614910008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32