{"id":4115,"date":"2021-08-19T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baugeschichte.tuwien.ac.at\/website\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T10:34:10","slug":"complex-stratigraphies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baugeschichte.tuwien.ac.at\/website\/complex-stratigraphies\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex Stratigraphies\u00a0at
Tell el-Dab\u2018a (Egypt)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Complex Near Eastern Stratigraphy at Tell el-Dab\u2018a (Area A\/II)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The objective of this project is the exploration and collation of results regarding the stratigraphy of settlement phases of Area A\/II at Tell el-Dab\u2018a, located in the Eastern Delta of Egypt. Excavations carried out at Tell el-Dab\u2018a from 1966 onwards under the direction of Manfred Bietak not only revealed a significant harbour site founded in the early 12th Dynasty (Middle Kingdom, c. 2000 BCE), but also a town inhabited already towards the end of this dynasty by multi-ethnic groups, the most significant one of Near Eastern provenance. The settlement displays therefore a cultural mix of Near Eastern Middle Bronze Age and Egyptian cultural elements according to material remains, burial customs and architectural features. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a trade hub, finds and imports from the Levant, Cyprus and the Aegean offer the unique possibility to reconstruct trade flows and its changing capacities in the course of time. As a result of this substantial influx of a foreign population, the site later became Avaris, the capital of the 14th and 15th Dynasties, the latter known as Hyksos, rulers of non-Egyptian origin. In this so called Second Intermediate Period (c. 1640-1530 BCE) the North of Egypt and, in consequence the trade with the Mediterranean, was controlled by foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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