Cycles of civilization in northern Mesopotamia, 4400–2000 BC

JA Ur - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2010 - Springer
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 …

Early urbanism in northern Mesopotamia

A McMahon - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2020 - Springer
Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent
excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with …

Different trajectories in state formation in Greater Mesopotamia: A view from Arslantepe (Turkey)

M Frangipane - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2018 - Springer
Long-term excavations at Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey), have revealed the development, in
the fourth millennium BC, of a precocious palatial system with a monumental building …

Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states

A McMahon, A Sołtysiak, J Weber - Journal of Field Archaeology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Excavations and surveys carried out from the mid-1990s through 2009 at Tell Brak,
northeast Syria, have focused on reconstructing the socioeconomic complexity and physical …

The spatial dimensions of early Mesopotamian urbanism: The Tell Brak suburban survey, 2003–2006

J Ur, P Karsgaard, J Oates - Iraq, 2011 - cambridge.org
The 2003–2006 Suburban Survey at Tell Brak investigated the spatial dimensions of the
city's urban origins and evolution via intensive systematic surface survey. This report places …

The end of prehistory and the Uruk period

G Algaze - The Sumerian World, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Ancient Mesopotamian civilization emerged in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris–Euphrates
rivers in what is today southern Iraq in the fourth millennium BC, and it endured in …

LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT IN THE EASTERN UPPER IRAQI TIGRIS AND NAVKUR PLAINS: THE LAND OF NINEVEH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT …

DM Bonacossi, M Iamoni - Iraq, 2015 - cambridge.org
This paper presents a preliminary report on the first two seasons of work by The Land of
Nineveh Archaeological Project (LoNAP) of Udine University that aims to understand the …

The lion, the king and the cage: Late Chalcolithic iconography and ideology in northern Mesopotamia

A McMahon - Iraq, 2009 - cambridge.org
Recent excavations at Tell Brak, Syria, have explored the site's early urban expansion,
including excavation of Late Chalcolithic mass graves in a small mound at the site's outer …

[PDF][PDF] Late Chalcolithic Kurgans in Transcaucasia. The cemetery of Soyuq Bulaq (Azerbaijan)

B Lyonnet, T Akhundov, K Almamedov… - … Mitteilungen aus Iran …, 2008 - academia.edu
In 2005, a kurgan cemetery dating to the Late Chalcolithic period was discovered and
excavated at Soyuq Bulaq in Azerbaijan, on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. About twenty …

The growth of early social networks: New geochemical results of obsidian from the Ubaid to Chalcolithic Period in Syria, Iraq and the Gulf

L Khalidi, B Gratuze, G Stein, A McMahon… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Obsidian artifacts are geochemically traceable to their geological sources of origin. The
results of their analysis provide some of the most accurate testimonies of interaction …