Long-term excavations at Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey), have revealed the development, in
the fourth millennium BC, of a precocious palatial system with a monumental building …

The mound of Arslantepe, located in the plain of Malatya, Eastern Turkey, not far from the
right bank of the Euphrates river, occupied continuously from the Chalcolithic to the Neo …

The intensification of fieldwork in northern Mesopotamia, the upper region of the Tigris-
Euphrates basin, has revealed two cycles of expansion and reduction in social complexity …

This article reconsiders the nature of relations between the southern and northern
communities of" Greater Mesopotamia" during the Late Uruk period and the effects that the …

This paper summarises the main achievements obtained in the course of 50 years of
excavations at Arslantepe (and particularly in the past three decades) relating to the …

The development of stratified societies in Mesopotamia has received considerable attention
but it is not clear whether similar pathways were followed in other parts of the eastern …

Tang-e Bolaghi (Fars), sites TB76 and TB77: rural settlements of the achaemenid and post-
achaemenid periods: report of the archaeological rescue excavations carried out in 2005 …

This article examines the role of Early Dynastic III and Akkadian period imperial ambitions of
southern Mesopotamian states in shaping the initial process of urbanization in the upper …

Defining territories and settlement hierarchies is a primary goal of archaeological survey,
involving the mapping of different-sized settlements on the ground. However it may not …

This article discusses findings from excavations at Arslantepe–Malatya. Arslantepe is a tell
about 4.5 hectares in extension and 30 meters high, at the heart of the fertile Malatya Plain …