These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing
about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in …

The 1999-2000 excavations by the Dutch-American team at Tell Umm el-Marra, western
Syria, achieved significant new results on the history and character of Bronze Age and later …

Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, in 2002 and 2004 revealed that the elite Tomb 1
discovered on the site acropolis in 2000 was part of a mid to late third-millennium BC …

I examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized
royal ancestors (d šarrena), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic …

In Ebla, Paolo Matthiae presents the results of 47 years of excavations at this fascinating
site, providing a detailed account of Ebla's history and archaeology. Ebla grew from a small …

As Colin Renfrew has remarked, most archaeological discussions of burial that venture
beyond simple description tend to center on social relations–issues of prestige, social …

The administrative texts from Ebla register the deaths of many people, usually members of
the royal family of Ebla itself and of the royal families of many other Syrian states, as well as …

Any effort to discover the origins of the Ugaritic dynasty attested in the Late Bronze Age
archives is made enormously difficult by the scarceness of written sources. As is well known …

The history of social theory embodies in and of itself notions of recursive practice.
Functionalism, structuralism, post-structuralism were each acted on by people whose …

It is generally accepted that pastoral tribes with their emphasis on mobility, kin-based
descent groups and reference to ancestors underpin many of the features that broadly …