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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 paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent
to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during …

This paper investigates and offers explanations for the distribution of specific products (ivory
and lapis lazuli artefacts,“Syrian” bottles) and technologies (metrology) that have often been …

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up
to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first …

Before the introduction of domestic horses in Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE,
contemporary cuneiform tablets and seals document intentional breeding of highly valued …

In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from
ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the …

Burials of domestic asses appear in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) of the Near East, yet there
is little understanding of the nature and importance of such burials. Usually, they are treated …

Les productions artisanales de l'homme font partie des témoins culturels les plus pertinents
pour l'étude des périodes préhistoriques et protohistoriques, dans la mesure où elles sont …

At Umm el-Marra in western Syria, a sequence of Bronze Age ritual installations facilitates
the investigation of how Syrian elites employed memory, ancestor veneration, and animal …