Corinne Castel

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Corinne Castel , married name Corinne Castel-Nogrette , is a French archaeologist at the Center national de la recherche scientifique .

Career

Castel was director of the Mission archéologique franco-syrienne (the 'Franco-Syrian archaeological mission') in al-Rawda, Syria, and belongs to the Archéorient laboratory . Environnement et sociétés de l'Orient ancien ('Environment and Society of the Ancient Orient') of the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée (MOM). Her work focuses on the Bronze Age of the Middle East, especially the urbanization of Syria and Mesopotamia , the first cities, habitat and urban development, religious architecture, but also the adaptation to the steppe areas, in particular the role of nomads and settled people in these arid regions of the fertile crescent .

From 1989 to 1993 she worked at the Institut Français d'Archéologie du Proche Orient in Damascus and was awarded her doctoral thesis Habitat urbain neo-assyrien et neo-babylonia in 1991 . De l'espace bâti à l'espace vécu received his doctorate from Jean-Louis Huot . In 1994 she started working at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée des Center national de la recherche scientifique in Lyon . In al-Rawda , she led the excavations from 2002 to 2010, together with Nazir Awad from the Syrian Antiquities Administration. From 2009 to 2013, together with Jan-Waalke Meyer from the University of Frankfurt , she coordinated the Round Settlements of the 3rd Millennium Program. v. BC in marginal areas of northern Syria - genesis, development, decline - Badiyah (2010-2013) . In addition to numerous specialist articles, she wrote articles in the Dictionnaire de la civilization mésopotamienne , for example on Mari or Phénicie ( Phenicia ).

Publications (selection)

  • with Luc Bachelot: Recherches sur la Ziggourat de Larsa , in: Jean-Louis Huot (ed.): Larsa, Travaux de 1985 , Paris 1989, pp. 53-77. ( academia.edu )
  • Habitat urbain neo-assyria et neo-babylonia. De l'espace bâti à l'espace vécu , Paris 1992.
  • with Michel al-Maqdissi, François Villeneuve (ed.): Les maisons dans la Syrie antique du IIIe millénaire aux débuts de l'Islam: pratique et représentations de l'espace domestique. Actes du Colloque International, Damas, 27-30 June 1992 , Beirut 1997.
  • with Frank Braemer, Bernard Geyer, Maamoun Abdulkarim: Conquest of new lands and water systems in the western Fertile Crescent (Central and Southern Syria) , in: Water History 2,2 (2010) 91–114.
  • with Jacques Brochier, Olivier Barge: Human impact on the landscape around Al-Rawda (Syria) during the Early Bronze IV: evidence for exploitation, occupation and appropriation of the land , in: Studia Chaburensia 4 (2014) 173-185.
  • Deux empreintes de sceaux-cylindres sur céramique du Bronze ancien IVB à Tell Al-Rawda: l'usage local d'une pratique sigillaire en Syrie intérieure , in: Pearls of the Past. Studies on Near Eastern Art and Archeology in Honor of Frances Pinnock , Zaphon Verlag, Münster 2019, pp. 161–186.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Corinne Castel: Habitat urbain neo-assyrien et neo-babylonia. De l'espace bâti à l'espace vécu. Paris 1992.
  2. ↑ Round settlements of the 3rd millennium. v. BC in marginal areas of Northern Syria - Genesis, Development, Fall - Badiyah (2010-2013) , website of the University of Frankfurt.
personal data
SURNAME Castel, Corinne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castel-Nogrette, Corinne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH before 1989