Merel Brüning
Guest Staff Member
- Name
- M.L. Brüning
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- m.l.bruning@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Merel Brüning is Research Assistant with the Landscapes of Survival Project, directed by prof. dr. Peter Akkermans. She is working on the interpretation and publication of the cairn graves of Jebel Qurma in North-Eastern Jordan and on the stratigraphy and architecture of the Middle Assyrian fortified settlement at Tell Sabi Abyad in Syria. She was assistant field director at Tell Sabi Abyad, where she has excavated from 1999-2010, and has been involved in the survey and excavations of the Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project since 2012.
Guest Staff Member
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Near Eastern
- Brüning M.L. (2024), Developments in food storage at late seventh millennium BCE Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: buildings with suspended floors. In: Düring B.S & Plug J.-H. (Eds.), The archaeology of the ‘Margins’: Studies on Ancient West Asia in Honour of Peter M.M.G. Akkermans.. Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia no. 53. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 147-165.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2023), Dwellings with three rooms: a new type of architecture at late seventh millennium BCE Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. In: Düring B.S. & Akkermans P.M.M.G. (Eds.), Style and society in the prehistory of West Asia: essays in honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse. Papers on Archaeology from The Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 29. Leiden: Sidestone. 29-42.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2023), Dwellings with three rooms: a new type of architecture at late seventh millennium BCE Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. In: Düring B.S. (Ed.), Style and Society in the prehistory of West Asia: Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse . Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 29. Leiden: Sidestone. 29-42.
- Brüning M.L. & Akkermans P.M.M.G. (2020), Een onherbergzaam landschap met een rijk verleden: graftombes in de Zwarte Woestijn, Phoenix: Tijdschrift voor de archeologie en geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten 66(1): 6-21.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G & Brüning M.L. (2020), A Late Roman Pastoralist Ironworking Site in the North-Eastern Black Desert, Jordan. In: Ahrens A., Rokitta-Krumnow D.,Bloch F. & ührig C. (Eds.), Drawing the Threads Together : Studies in Honour of Karin Bartl no. 10. Münster: Zaphon. 209-226.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G. & rüning M.L. (2020), Landscapes of Survival: The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond. In: Akkermans P.M.M.G. (Ed.). Leiden: Sidestone. 185-216.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Arntz M., Inskip S.A. & Akkermans K.A.N. (2020), Desert tombs: recent research into the Bronze Age and Iron Age cairn burials of Jebel Qurma, North-East Jordan. Avanzini A, Bandyopadhyay S, Eichmann R, Holes C, Al-Muaikel K, Potts D.T, Robin C.J, Starkey J & Weeks L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50: Papers from the fifty-third meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July 2019. Seminar for arabian studies 11 July 2019 - 13 July 2019. Proceedings of the seminar for Arabian Studies no. 50. Oxford: Archaeopress. 1-17.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2019), Architecture and Social Continuity at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad III, Syria. In: Philippe Abrahami P. & Battini L. (Eds.), Ina dmarri u qan tuppi - Par la bêche et le stylet! Cultures et sociétés syro-mésopotamiennes, Mélanges offerts à Olivier Rouault. Oxford: Archaeopress. 101-110.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G. & Brüning M.L. (2017), Nothing but Cold Ashes? The Cairn Burials of Jebel Qurma, Northeastern Jordan, Near Eastern Archaeology 80(2): 132-139.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Huigens H.O. & Brüning M.L. (2014), A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan, Levant 46(2): 186-205.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Huigens H.O. & Nieuwenhuyse O.P. (2014), Tell Sabi Abyad 1994-1999 Campaigns: Late Neolithic Stratigraphy and Architecture. In: Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Huigens H.O. & Nieuwenhuyse O.P. (Eds.), Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: The 1994-1999 Field Seasons. Turnhout: Brepols. 29-86.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Huigens H.O. & Nieuwenhuyse O.P. (Eds.) (2014), Excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad: The 1994-1999 Field Seasons. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 11. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Huigens H.O. & Nieuwenhuyse O.P. (Eds.) (2014), Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
- Brüning M.L. (2014), Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria - The 1994-1999 field seasons: Beads and pendants. In: Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Huigens H.O. & Nieuwenhuyse O.P. (Eds.), Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria - The 1994-1999 field seasons. Papers on Archaeology from The Leiden Museum of Antiquities no. 11. Turnhout: Brepols.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L., Hammers N., Huigens H., Kruijer L., Meens A., Nieuwenhuyse O., Raat A., Rogmans E.F., Slappendel C., Taipale S., Tews S. & Visser E. (2012), Burning down the house: the burnt building V6 at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 43/44: 307-324.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M., Hammers N., Huigens H., Kruijer L.W., Meens A., Nieuwenhuyse O., Raat A., Rogmans E.F., Slappendel C., Taipale S., Tews S. & Visser E. (2012), Burning Down The House: The Burnt Building V6 at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 43/44: 307-324.
- Akkermans P.M.M.G., Brüning M.L. & Kaneda A. (2011), Foundation or Rendezvous? Constructing Platforms in Late Neolithic Syria. In: Düring B.S., Wossink A. & Akkermans P.M.M.G. (Eds.), Correlates of Complexity: Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday.. PIHANS. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden. Leiden: Nederlands Insituut voor het Nabije Oosten . 1-13.
- Brüning.M.L. & Akkermans P.M.M.G. (2010), De Midden-Assyrische Dunnu van Tell Sabi Abyad - Bewoningsgeschiedenis van een versterkte nederzetting aan de grens van Assyrie, Phoenix: bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux 56: 5-16, Phoenix: bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux 56(1-2): 5-16.