Thin End of the Wedge

61. Shigeo Yamada: Yasin Tepe: on the margins of empire


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Shigeo shares the results of fieldwork at a site that was once a key city on the edges of the Assyrian empire. How do we know which city it was? He describes the key finds, and interprets their significance. What can we learn from a necklet?

2:22 Yasin Tepe
4:54 goals
6:38 identification as Dur-Ashur
9:12 results
12:44 who lived there?
13:44 inscribed necklet of a slave
18:49 future work
23:20 Tsukuba

Shigeo's Academia
Shigeo's ResearchGate

Music by Ruba Hillawi

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