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• Workshop 2009: Routes & Landscapes in Eurasia
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  • Toby Wilkinson
    Pathways & Highways: Routes in B.A. Eurasia
  • Murat Akar
    The Role of Harbour Towns
  • John Gallagher
    The 5th Dynasty Byblos Ship (abstract)
  • Cinzia Tavernari
    Roads & caravanserais in Medieval Syria
• Workshop 2007: Mapping Human History From Space
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  • Toby Wilkinson
    Virtual globes, geotagging and global landscapes
  • Björn Menze
    Remote sensing of ancient settlement mounds
  • Jason Ur
    Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes in the Near East
  • T.J. Wilkinson
    Ancient Near Eastern Route Systems
  • Cameron Petrie
    Remote Sensing in Inaccessible Lands
  • Simone Mühl
    Mat Ashur – Land of Ashur
  • Graham Philip
    Unscrambling the 'uplands'
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Qara Qosh

Tony J. Wilkinson, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham Ancient Near Eastern Route Systems: From the Ground Up (Nov. 2007) A particularly common trace of ancient route systems on the ground is the 'hollow way'. In the Middle East hollow ways, like their counterparts in the UK and Europe, appear as long, usually straight valleys. This paper examines the traces of these ancient route systems in the Ancient Near East according to their pattern, processes of formation, parallels elsewhere, and their function.