Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Mesopotamia"
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The Architecture and Pottery of a Late 3rd Millennium BC Residential Quarter at Tell Hamoukar, Northeastern Syria
(British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2011)The 2001 excavations in Area H on Hamoukar’s lower town produced a wealth of information on a residential neighbourhood of a late third-millennium BC city. The excavations were intended to address several issues, including ... -
CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case Study
(Antiquity Publications, 2003)Landscape archaeology has emphasised the role of the entire landscape in ancient life, rather than putting an exclusive focus on those loci of intensive behaviour we call “sites.” The broader area of interest requires a ... -
Cycles of Civilization in Northern Mesopotamia, 4400-2000 BC
(Springer, 2009-08-18)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 between 4400-2000 BC. These cycles include ... -
Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North
(Antiquity Publications, 2007)For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: ‘The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted ...