Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations.

ABSTRACT: While archaeological sciences have made great advances over the last decades through combining archaeological evidence and natural sciences in order to push borders for the understanding of archaeological contexts, traditional archaeology still holds an immense latent potential. Such potential can be realized through baseline projects that pull together unexplored bodies of material culture and study these in detail in order to investigate their significance for the understanding of the human past. This paper presents such a large-scale baseline study and focuses on the presentation of the results emerging from the recently compiled corpus of more than 3700 funerary portraits stemming from one location in the ancient world, Roman Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian Desert. The analysis of

SUBMITTER: Raja R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565770 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature