This paper provides the first comprehensive sourcing analysis of the tin ingots carried by the
well-known Late Bronze Age shipwreck found off the Turkish coast at Uluburun (ca. 1320 …

The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of
the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a …

This book is a revised version of the dissertation I defended at the University of Toronto in
2016 for the obtention of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It could not have been written …

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 …

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 …

Fundamental to understanding the transmission of tin bronze metallurgy across Eurasia is
the evidence for known tin sources that may have been available to metalworking …

Ever since the discovery of Indus valley civilization, scholars have debated the linguistic
identities of its people. This study analyzes numerous archaeological, linguistic …

The many gold and silver artifacts from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur in
Mesopotamia are among the greatest metal finds of Ancient Mesopotamia in the third …