Encompassing a landmass greater than the rest of the Near East and Eastern
Mediterranean combined, the Arabian peninsula remains one of the last great unexplored …

Abstract Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) represents a methodology with significant potential
for altering archaeological analytical practice. The continued growth in the number of …

The Old Assyrian commercial system is perhaps the best-documented example of a long-
distance trade network surviving from the ancient world. The term “Old Assyrian” used here …

The organization of ancient pottery production has been a topic of interest in ceramic
archaeology for decades, 1 because organization and production are seen as sources of …

This introductory essay aims to introduce the chapters in the book presenting some aspects
of the theoretical and conceptual framework necessary to consider the advantages computer …

Abstract The Late Bronze Age crisis has traditionally been considered a turning point in the
recent prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean. Between the 13th and 11th centuries BC, the …

The settlement—a place on a landscape where a human group lives and interacts—has
become such a fundamental social and material concept in archaeology that it is rarely …

Increasingly sophisticated hominin cognition is assumed to play an important role in major
dispersal events but it is unclear what that role is. We present an agent-based model …

Abstract The Early Bronze Age site of RJ‐2, located close to the coastal village of Ra's al‐
Jinz on the eastern Omani coast (Niyabat Ra's al‐Hadd), was the focus of archaeological …

This paper reports the results of excavation at Mugharat al‐Kahf (WTN01) in Wādī Tanūf,
North‐central Oman. It also provides information on the nonmortuary and nonsedentary …