This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from
the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field …

This book provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of human-plant interactions
and their social consequences from the hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic Era to the 21st …

The Amuq plain in southeast Turkey is of major importance to the development of Near
Eastern cultural sequences. Recent investigations of geoarchaeology, settlement patterns …

In 2018, a well-constructed cist-type grave was discovered at Baja, a Neolithic village (7,400–
6,800 BCE) in Southern Jordan. Underneath multiple grave layers, an 8-year-old child was …

Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts,
as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed …

This paper reviews the cultural practice of intramural burials for infants in Greece, making
reference to parallel practices in Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt. This age-old and …

This paper intends to give a brief, factual account of some of the new fieldwork projects in
Syria that are now documenting a short transitional stage between the Pre-Halaf and the …

The 1996 and 1997 seasons of the Hopkins-Amsterdam project in the Jabbul plain, western
Syria, have generated new results on Bronze Age urbanism at Tell Umm el-Marra and …

Special treatment of the remains of children is a well-known feature in Central Italy from the
Neolithic onwards. Here I will focus on the evidence for the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age …

Abstract Recent excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad in northern Syria yielded a number of stone
stamp seals and clay sealings from well-stratified Neolithic contexts, dating c. 6300–6000 …