@book {1484441, title = {About Tell Tweini (Syria): Artefacts, Ecofacts, and Landscape. Research Results of the Belgian Mission}, year = {2019}, pages = {651}, publisher = {Peeters}, organization = {Peeters}, address = {Leuven, Belgium}, abstract = { The site of Tell Tweini is located 35{\textdegree}22{\textquoteright}18{\textquotedblright} North; 35{\textdegree}56{\textquoteright}42{\textquotedblright} East, on the southern bank of the Rumeilah River in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km south of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, capital of the ancient Kingdom of Ugarit. Since 1999, the site of ca. 12 hectares is under excavation by the Syro-Belgian team headed by Dr. M. Al-Maqdissi (Department of Antiquities, Damascus - Field B) and Prof. J. Bretschneider (Field A and C). As one of the few sites under excavation in the Northern Levant with a full archaeological sequence spanning the Early Bronze Age IV (ca. 2400 B.C.) up to the Iron III period (ca. 500 B.C.), Tell Tweini (Field A) is a key site for the study of the developments in the Northern Levant, especially where the Bronze to Iron Age transition is concerned, and an ideal starting point from which to approach the nature of the transitional period. Tweini was part of the Ugaritic Kingdom and is large enough to reflect transformations taking place on a regional as well as a supra-regional scale. The lead researcher for the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program project was Prof. J. Bretschneider, Ancient Near Eastern archaeologist and Field Director of the Belgian branch of the Syro-Belgian Tell Tweini Project (Fields A \& C) between 1999 and 2005 and Director since 2006. Joachim Bretschneider\ coordinated and supervised the collection of all the Tweini data and material and managed all available knowledge related to the different periods and disciplines. He\ organized the production and the publication of the monograph including a full study of assorted topics concerning the A Field - more specifically\ the loom weights, the pot marks, the glyptic and scarabs, the communal Middle Bronze Age grave, the Cypriot pottery, the bio-archaeology and the landscape - in a proper chronological and socio-political context. Bretschneider worked with colleagues from different fields to synthesize accounts of architecture, stratigraphy, ceramics, other artefacts and environmental data.\  }, editor = {Joachim Bretschneider and Greta Jans} }