New Approach to the Study of City Planning and Domestic Dwellings in the Ancient Near East

New Approach to the Study of City Planning and Domestic Dwellings in the Ancient Near East

[SHS:ARCHEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory

[SDU:STU:GP] Sciences of the Universe/Earth Sciences/Geophysics

[PHYS:PHYS:PHYS_GEO-PH] Physics/Physics/Geophysics

[SDE:MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes

magnetic survey

city planning

domestic unit

space syntax

Doura-Europos

ancient Near East

This paper presents the results of a magnetic survey on the Hellenistic and Roman site of Doura-Europos in Syria. The interpretation of the magnetic data is based on an original approach by considering the use of space in a domestic unit.This type of study has been developed for sociological research but is adapted to the information carriedwithin geophysical data. After a brief presentation of the role of geophysicalmethods for the study of city planning, the most important components of the ‘space syntax' will be presented and applied to two blocks of Doura-Europos, one that has been excavated in the twentieth century by theYale University and another surveyed using the magnetic method.

Benech, Christophe

Archaeological Prospection

ISSN:1075-2196

2007-05-08

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412125

DOI: 10.1002/arp.306

http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/41/21/25/PDF/Benech_city_planning.pdf