Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.
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Images and descriptions of objects in the University of Chicago center's collection.
The Joint Prehistoric Project comprises several archaeological expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey dating from 1947. All of these separate excavations, however, sought the solution to a general problem: "How are we to understand those great changes in mankind's way of life which attended the first appearance of the settled village-farming community?"
A clearing house for information pertaining to the archaeology of the ancient Near East including a forum listing useful links, discussions, upcoming events, and news .
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The project aims to take up previously recognised indications of Bronze and Early Iron Age environmental and economic change in northern Syria and southern Turkey and specify these developments through new carpological, anthracological and geoarchaeological studies. Antiquity Vol 78 No 302 December 2004
From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East.
Presents research of Avraham Negev regarding the legendary tribe of Nabateans.
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