This paper presents an overview of human sociocultural evolution in the Mediterranean
world and the results of a study of settlement and empire upsweeps in the Mediterranean�…

This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in
early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China;�…

My goal with this essay is to make the existence of a distinctive Levantine cultural paradigm
a lens through which to examine long-term patterns of urbanization and cultural change in�…

This book gives an overview of different factors involved in the emergence and change in
early urban societies in fourth-millennium Mesopotamia and Egypt; pre-Shang China;�…

Exchange of goods among settlements of the ancient Near East has been a long-term
historical process since the Neolithic era. By the Ubaid and Uruk periods the exchange�…

This volume presents results from a School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
seminar, which addressed the topic of interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late�…

This chapter focuses first on the emergence of the Neolithic economic system in the Near
East around the 10th–9th millennium BC, outlining the stages of its diffusion towards the�…

The onset of Holocene around 12 Ka coincided with climatic changes, which pre-empted the
humans to change their subsistence strategies, evolving gradually from food gathering to�…

The significance of interaction and networking in the development and change of societies is
emphasized in this brief long-term study of a wide geographical area of the ancient Near�…

Mesopotamia as the cradle of civilization has been in the spotlight of scientific study since
the 19th century. Excavations in southern Mesopotamia in the area between the two great�…