Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450878

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450878

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

House to House Enquiries in the Hellenistic Near East. Housing is primary, vivid evidence of domestic life. Its key role in interpreting the social fabric of human settlement is a current international debate. This will be the first study of households in the Near East in the Seleucid period, when Macedonians settled the Levant. Did Greek culture interact with eastern traditions? Only archaeological evidence survives. The project takes a unique, newly-excavated site in Syria as a starting point for a wider investigation of Hellenistic houses in the Near East, using the cross-disciplinary evidence of architecture, ceramics, domestic cult, zooarchaeology, palaeobotany and nuclear analysis of clays to interpret living space.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2004

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $212,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History: Classical Greek And Roman | Archaeology | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Europe, The Mediterranean And | Archaeological Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Archaeological Science | Archaeology | Archaeology Of Complex Societies: Europe, The Mediterranean And | History: Classical Greek And Roman | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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