Kamal Badreshany (Durham)
Public Lecture | 3 July 2024 | 6:30pm
The lecture will investigate the development of complex societies in the Lebanese coastal zone during the Early Bronze Age (EBA). New evidence shows that coastal Lebanon, with its unique mountainous setting and ample water resources, developed a distinct pathway to complexity. Dr Kamal Badreshany will discuss ceramic and architectural evidence from recently excavated sites in the region to assess the economic underpinnings of EBA communities. He will examine the distribution of EBA settlements in coastal Lebanon with a view to understanding the underlying logic, and to contrast the distribution of EBA settlements with that documented for other parts of the Levant during this time.
Kamal Badreshany is Assistant Professor in Archaeology at Durham University, specialising in Levantine Archaeology and archaeological materials analysis. He leads the Durham Archaeomaterials Research Centre (DARC), an analytical research facility based in the Department of Archaeology that offers advanced chemical and materials analysis for academia and industry. His research focuses upon human adaptation to changing social, economic, and environmental conditions, especially as related to increasing settlement density and the formation of the earliest states in the Levant. To investigate these themes, he draws on a range of techniques in the analysis of archaeological ceramic materials using archaeometric techniques, including ceramic petrography, scanning electron microscopy, XRF, ICP and X-ray diffraction. He is a trustee member of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and currently directs the excavations at Tell Koubba (northern Lebanon – pictured above) along with Graham Philip and Michel De Vreeze.
This event is online
Members |$20
Non-members | $25
Students | Free
Please register by 28 June 2024
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