The mechanics of political leadership and the ways in which it manifests and reproduces itself---from the establishment of constituency allegiance to the production of entire landscapes of authority---have become prominent foci of study among social scientists in recent decades.…
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The Wadi Tumilat is a long, narrow valley linking Egypt's eastern Delta with the Isthmus of Suez. This work presents a history of the valley based on archaeological and related data. A range of source materials is analyzed and synthesized, including ethnographic testimony, envir…
Archaeological excavations at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios, Cyprus have revealed a flourishing Late Bronze Age urban settlement situated not far from the southern coast of the island and near a major deposit of copper ore. The site's location suggests that this thirteenth century …
The many tombs and rare settlements of Early through Middle Bronze Age Cyprus have yielded a substantial corpus of weapons, tools and ornaments made of copper often alloyed with arsenic or tin. Many questions remain concerning the techniques used to make these objects--we have y…
Socio-cultural diversity and ethnicity are key themes in the archaeological research of the Near East. Faunal remains are an important source of knowledge regarding the herd maintenance and subsistence strategies which supported ancient populations and often reflected informatio…
The Late Bronze Age in Britain (c. 1250–750 BC) was a period of economic and social reorganisation: agricultural and settlement patterns; funerary and depositional practices - all saw significant change and development. This thesis examines the evidence for the occupation and en…
This research aims to look at dietary practices of separate populations from across the Adriatic Sea (Italy and Croatia). Paleodietary studies through stable isotope analysis is a means to look at possible food catchments chosen by past communities in order to make educated assu…
Mezopotamya tapınak mimarisi arkeolojinin Mezopotamya’da bilim olarak araştırmalarına başladığı günden bugüne gizemini korumaktadır. Tanrının evi olarak yapılan tapınaklar etrafında gelişen kent ve yerleşimler yine tapınak tarafından yönetilmektedir. Dini otoritenin elinde bulun…
The difficulties of the Bronze Age burial record on Cyprus have been well documented. Until recent years, limitations to the body of demographic data, obtained from the mortuary arena, have prevented a substantial investigation into the relationship between biological aspects of…
Changes in social organization can be studied through several different avenues one of which is through mortuary patterns. Here we will be looking at changes in social organization during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Northern Europe using mortuary and osteological data. I…
In this dissertation I analyze economic and social conditions in households and neighborhoods in Upper Mesopotamia, ca. third millennium B.C.E. Most investigations of domestic residences in the ancient Near East have focused on elite residences. In contrast, I analyze wealthy an…
This dissertation examines the Early- to Middle Bronze Age transition (EB–MB transition) in Syria, a period of urban and state disintegration that peaked ca. 2000 B.C. The investigation focuses on the role of a newly important ethnic group attested in the historical literature, …
This dissertation investigates the relationships between archaeological practice and wider intellectual trends surrounding the study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) – Early Iron Age (EIA) transition in Greece (c. 1200 – 1000 BCE), and, in doing so, presents a case study of the mech…
The ceramic pottery production in the North Caucasus in the Bronze and Iron Age enables us to understand the production technology, technological development and transfer, craft system and mobility of the potters in the semi-sedentary and semi-mobile society. However, most prehi…
In this work I use archaeological data from the southern Levant as a means to examine methodological and theoretical issues associated with the study of mobile pastoralists in the archaeological record. My research focuses on the Early Bronze Age I-III and Early Bronze Age IV/Mi…
The site of Tell el Ajjul represents one of the most important Middle Bronze Age sites in southern Palestine. This dissertation presents a refined chronology of the site based on a correlation between the destruction of Town I and the Minoan eruption of the Thera volcano. It is …
The end of the Middle Bronze Age in Palestine during the 16th century B.C.E. coincides with the expulsion of the Hyksos and the rise of the 18th Dynasty in Egypt. During the transitional period between the Middle Bronze Age and the Late Bronze Age in Palestine (circa. 16th∼15th …
Composite vases, vessels with multiple bodies and/or spouts, are known from most cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, especially in Bronze Age Cyprus. They are commonly, but not universally, associated with religious rituals. The goal of this dissertation is to test this assoc…
This dissertation examines the system of social stratification that emerged in the northwest Syrian realm of Alalah during the early Late Bronze Age, when Alalah was the westernmost dependency of the empire of Mittani. The cuneiform tablet archives excavated from Level IV of the…