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September 2026

Total number of authors: 108.


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Author Year Title
Agnew, Neville 2001 “Methodology, Conservation Criteria and Performance Evaluation for Archaeological Site Shelters”
2006 “Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation”
2004 “Monitoring through Replication. Design and Evaluation of the Monitoring Reburial at the Laetoli Trackway Site”
Akar, Murat 2020 “The formation of collective, political and cultural memory in the Middle Bronze Age: foundation and termination rituals at Toprakhisar Höyük”
2021 “A Fresh Perspective on the Middle Bronze Age at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: The 2007-2019 Seasons”
Akrawi, Aysar 2006 “NGO and Government Collaboration in Archaeological Site Management: The Case of Petra in Jordan”
al-Maqdissi, Michel 2007 Céramique de l’âge du bronze en Syrie. II: l’Euphrate et la région de Jézireh
Amiet, Pierre 1966 “Il y a 5000 ans les Elamites inventaient l’écriture”
Anati, Emmanuel 1988 Origini dell’arte e della concettualità
Aruz, Joan 2008 Beyond Babylon. Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
Asher-Greve, Julia 1997 “The Essential Body: Mesopotamian Conceptions of the Gendered Body”
2013 “Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources”
2006 “On Nakedness, Nudity and Gender in Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art”
Aslıhan, K. Yener 2021 “A Fresh Perspective on the Middle Bronze Age at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: The 2007-2019 Seasons”
Assante, Julia 2009 “Inside and Out: The Extra-Dimensional Aspects of the Mesopotamian Body, With Egyptian Parallels”
Badre, Laila 1980 “Les figurines anthropomorphes en terre cuite à l'Age du Bronze en Syrie”
Baghdo, Abd el-Massih 2001 “New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000”
Bahrani, Zainab 1996 “The Hellenization of Ishtar: Nudity, Fetishism and the Production of Cultural Differentiation in Ancient Art”
2001 “Women of Babylon”
Bailey, Douglass 2013 “Figurines, corporeality and the origins of gender”
Baker, Taha 1971 The Epic of Gilgamesh
Baltacioğlu, Hatçe 2003 “Alaca Höyük sfenksli kapı aşçilar kabartması [Depictions of cooks on the Sphinx Gate at Alaca Höyük]”
Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse 1977 “Le ‘Cas’ hurrite et la pratique archeologique”
1978 “Le ‘cas hurrite’ et l’archéologie”
Barrett, John 2016 “Archaeology after Interpretation: Returning Humanity to Archaeological Theory”
Bataray, Nurettin 2022 “MÖ 2. BINYILDA DOGU AKDENIZ ILE EGE ARASINDAKI KÜLTÜREL ILISKILER: NUZI SERAMIGI ÜZERINE DEGERLENDIRMELER [CULTURAL RELATIONS BETWEEN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND AEGEAN IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC: CONSIDERATIONS ON NUZI WARE]”
Beckman, Gary 2003 “Gilgamesh in Ḫatti”
Bednarik, Robert G. 2003 “A Major Change in Archaeological Paradigm”
Ben-Shlomo, David 2010 Philistine Iconography: A Wealth of Style and Symbolism
Benzel, Kim 2008 Beyond Babylon. Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
Bianchi, Alice 2012 “A Diachronic Case? Comparing Pottery Types of the Northern Khabur Triangle and the Upper Tigris Region at the End of the Third Millennium BC”
Biscione, Raffaele 1989 “La ceramica del III millennio”
1998 “La sequenza del III millennio a Tell Barri/Kahat: l’area B”
Bobryk, E. 2000 “Water Permeability and Thermal Shock Resistance of 6th–3rd Millennium Cooking Pots from North Mesopotamia”
Boehmer, R.M. 2001 “Ninive – Das späte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.”
Braidwood Linda S. 1960 Excavations in the Plain of Antioch I: The Earlier Assemblages Phases A-J
Braidwood, Robert J. 1960 Excavations in the Plain of Antioch I: The Earlier Assemblages Phases A-J
Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea 2013 Frühe Götterdarstellungen in Mesopotamien. Ihre Beziehungen im Spiegel der Archäologie und der Literatur des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt
Bretschneider, Joachim 2007 “An Elite Akkadian Grave on the Acropolis at Tell Beydar”
1997 “Spätfrüdynastische und akkadische Keramik der Hügelkuppe / Akropolis Feld F”
Brustolon, Anna 2007 “The Late Chalcolithic Period in the Tell Leilan Region: A Report on the Ceramic Material of the 1995 Survey”
2008 “The Late Chalcolithic Settlement in the Leilan Region of Northeastern Syria: A Preliminary Assessment”
Buccellati, Federico 2021 “L’architettura palatina”
2019 “Houses of Nippur: An Architectural Study using EnCAB”
Buccellati, Giorgio 1963 “I testi economici della III dinastia di Ur. Review to: Tom B. Jones and John W. Snyder, Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty, A Catalogue and Discussion of Documents from Various Collections, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961, pp. 421”
1963 “La storia della Siria antica”
1966 Review to: Herbert Bardwell Huffmon, Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study, Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1965, pp. XVI + 304,
1966 “The Amorites of the Ur III Period”
1967 “Cities and Nations of Ancient Syria. An Essay on Political Institutions with Special Reference to the Israelite Kingdoms”
1969 Review to: Giorgio R. Castellino, Mitologia sumerico-accadica, Torino: Società Editrice Internazionale, 1967, pp. 214
1972 Review to: Mirjo Salvini, Nairi e Ir(u)aṭri. Contributo alla storia della Formazione del regno di Urarṭu, Incunabula Graeca 16, Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1967, pp. 111
1972 “Tre saggi sulla sapienza mesopotamica”
1973 “Methodological Concerns and the Progress of Ancient Near Eastern Studies”
1974 “Foreword”
1977 “Apiru and Munnabtūtu — The Stateless of the First Cosmopolitan Age”
1977 “Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 2. A Cuneiform Tablet of the Early Second Millennium B.C.”
1977 “The «Urban Revolution» in a Socio-Political Perspective”
1979 Terqa Preliminary Reports No. 10. The Fourth Season: Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record (edited by Giorgio Buccellati)
1981 “The origin of Writing and the Beginning of History”
1981 “Principles of Stylistic Analysis”
1981 “Stratigraphic Sections”
1982 “The Descent of Inanna as a Ritual Journey to Kutha”
1983 “Allocution de représentant des participants”
1983 “Computer Aided Research in Near Eastern Studies: An Introduction”
1984 “Introduction”
1984 “Review to”: John Boardman et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 3, part 1, The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eight Centuries B.C., 2nd ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. xx + 1059
1986-1987 “On the Distribution of Epigraphic Finds at Terqa”
1986 “Analyzing Assyrian Palace Reliefs. Review to”: Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, The Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture. New York: Schocken Books, 1985, pp. 136
1986 “Computer Projects”
1988 “Ancient Syria. Introduction”
1988 Gilgamesh and Enkidu: The First Encounter (The Old Babylonian Pennsylvania Tablet)
1988 “The Kingdom and Period of Khana”
1990 “Cybernetica Mesopotamica”
1990 “The Ebla Electronic Corpus: Graphemic Analysis”
1990 “Experiments in Salt Production at Tell Qraya”
1990 “From Khana to Laqê: the End of Syro-Mesopotamia”
1990 Review to: Wayne T. Pitard, Ancient Damascus: A Historical Study of the Syrian City-State from Earliest Times until its Fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E., Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1987, pp. viii + 230
1990 “‘River Bank’, ‘High Country’, and ‘Pasture Land’: the Growth of Nomadism on the Middle Euphrates and the Khabur”
1990 “The Rural Landscape of the Ancient Zor: The Terqa Evidence”
1990 “Salt at the Dawn of History: the Case of the Bevelled-Rim Bowls”
1991 “A Note on the muškēnum as a ‘Homesteader’”
1992 “Ebla and the Amorites”
1992 “The Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Analysis”
1993 “Gli Amorrei e l’“addomesticamento” della steppa”
1993 “Through a Tablet Darkly. A Reconstruction of Old Akkadian Monuments Described in Old Babylonian Copies”
1995 “Eblaite and Amorite Names”
1995 “Ethics and Piety in·the Ancient Near East”
1996 A Structural Grammar of Babylonian
1996 “The Role of Socio-Political Factors in the Emergence of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Domains in Early Mesopotamia”
1997 “Akkadian and Amorite Phonology”
1998 “Review to: Aviram, J. and Shanks, H. (eds.) [1996], Archaeology’s Publication Problems, Washington D.C., Biblical Archaeology Society”
2000 “On Poetry and Friendship: Linear and Tensional Elements in the Old Babylonian Episode of Gilgamesh and Enkidu”
2003-2004 Review to: Geyer, B. (ed.) [2001], Conquête de la steppe et appropriation des terres sur les marges arides du Croissant fertile, Lyon: Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen – Jean Pouilloux (= Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient méditerranéen, 36)
2004 Present at Creation
2006 On (e)-tic and -emic
2007 Non-linear archaeology
2008 The Origin of the Tribe and the ‘Industrial’ Agropastoralism in Syro-Mesopotamia
2010 The Question of Digital Thought
2011 Digital Edition and Graphemic Analysis of the Ebla Texts
2012 Aten in Amurru?
2012 Towards a Linguistic Model for Archaeology
2014 Nella storia, la compagnia del destino all’uomo
2014 The threefold ‘invention’ of time: transcendental, transcendent, trans-temporal
2015 The Transcendental Revolution
2017 “Perceptual, Grammatical and Hermeneutical Dimensions of Digitality”
2020 ‘Awīliš īwē’. L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città’Awīliš īwē’. L’uomo mesopotamico come figlio della città
2021 The Cosmos before Cosmology: Foreshadowing of Order in Prehistory
2022 Transformative Transitions: Learning from a Distant Past
Buccellati, Giorgio and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati 1967 Archaeological Survey of the Palmyrene and the Jebel Bishri
1977 New Archaeological Harvests from Syria
1977 Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: A Preface
1977 Terqa Preliminary Reports, No. 1: General Introduction and the Stratigraphic Record of the First Two Seasons
1986 The Glory of Ancient Syria. Ebla to Damascus, Part I
1986 The Glory of Ancient Syria. Ebla to Damascus, Part II
1988 Introduction
2017 Community Archaeology 1984: At the Interface between Practice and Theory
Buccellati, Giorgio and Stephen Reimer 1990 Tell Ziyada
Budin, Stephanie Lynn 2014 Fertility and Gender in the Ancient Near East
Carandini, Andrea 2000 Storie dalla terra. Manuale di scavo archeologico
2017 La forza del contesto
Carr, Nicholas 2008 Is Google Making us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Christophe, Nicolle 2007 Céramique de l’âge du bronze en Syrie. II: l’Euphrate et la région de Jézireh
Collon, Dominique 1982 The Alalakh Cylinder Seals.
1982 Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum.
Cunningham, Tim 2007 “An Elite Akkadian Grave on the Acropolis at Tell Beydar”
Daszkiewicz, M. 2000 “Water Permeability and Thermal Shock Resistance of 6th–3rd Millennium Cooking Pots from North Mesopotamia”
2001 “Stone Ware and Ninevite 5: Notes on Composition and Technology of Pottery from Tell Brak”
Deborah Sweeney 2006 “On Nakedness, Nudity and Gender in Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art”
Delougaz, Pinhas 1952 Pottery from the Diyala Region
de Martino, Stefano 2000 “Mitanni”
Demet Kara 2020 “The formation of collective, political and cultural memory in the Middle Bronze Age: foundation and termination rituals at Toprakhisar Höyük”
Durand, Jean-Marie 1987 “L’organisation de l’espace dans le palais de Mari : le témoignage des textes”
Erkanal, H. 1988 “Girnavaz”
Falb, Ch. 2009 Untersuchungen an Keramikwaren des dritten Jahrtausends v. Chr. aus Nordsyrien
2008 “On the Origin of the Northmesopotamian Metallic Ware: A New View from Sediment Geochemistry”
Gibson, McG. 1995 “Investigation of the Early Dynastic-Akkadian Transition: Report of the 18th and 19th Seasons of Excavation in Area WF”
Goodnick Westenholz, Joan 2013 “Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources”
Gut, R. 2001 “Ninive – Das späte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.”
Harrak, A. 1997 “Mitanni”
Hauptmann, H. 2000 Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux 4.-3. millenaires : actes du Colloque international organise par l’Institut francais d’etudes anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA) en collaboration avec l’Universite d’Istanbul (IU), le Deutsches archaologisches institut (DAI) et le British institute of archaeology at Ankara (BIAA)
Hrouda, B. 1957 “Die Bemalte Keramik des zweiten Jahrtausends in Nordmesopotamien und Nordsyrien”
Janet Bridgland 2006 “Of the Past, for the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation”
Jans, Greta 1997 “Spätfrüdynastische und akkadische Keramik der Hügelkuppe / Akropolis Feld F”
Kibaroğlu, M. 2008 Petrographische und Geochemische Untersuchungen an archäologischer Keramik aus Nordost-Syrien, Südost-Anatolien und Ost-Georgien
2008 “On the Origin of the Northmesopotamian Metallic Ware: A New View from Sediment Geochemistry”
Kolińki, R. 2007 “The Upper Khabur Region in the Second Part of the Third Millennium BC”
Kozbe, G. 2012 “Evidence for the Societal Complexity of the Upper Tigris Region during the Late Third Millennium and Early Second Millennium BC from Kavuşan Höyük”
Kühne, H. 1976 Die Keramik aus Tell Chuēra und ihre Beziehung zu den Funden aus Syrien-Palästina, der Türkei und dem Iraq
Laneri, Nicola 2009 Biografia di un vaso. Tecniche di produzione del vasellame ceramico nel Vicino Oriente antico tra il V e il II millennio a.C.
2012 Looking North: The Socioeconomic Dynamics of the Northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian Regions during the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC
Lebeau, M. 2000 “Stratified Archaeological Evidence and Compared Periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the Third Millennium BC”
Mahmoud, Yasmine 2021 Anthropomorphic figurines, statuettes and jewelry from Urkesh. An archaeological and historical study
Mallowan, Max E.L. 1937 “Excavations at Tall Chagar Bazar and an Archaeological Survey of the Ḫabur Region. Second.Campaign, 1936”
Marro, C. 2000 Chronologies des pays du Caucase et de l’Euphrate aux 4.-3. millenaires : actes du Colloque international organise par l’Institut francais d’etudes anatoliennes d’Istanbul (IFEA) en collaboration avec l’Universite d’Istanbul (IU), le Deutsches archaologisches institut (DAI) et le British institute of archaeology at Ankara (BIAA)
Martha Demas 2004 “Monitoring through Replication. Design and Evaluation of the Monitoring Reburial at the Laetoli Trackway Site”
Matoian, Valérie 2007 Céramique de l’âge du bronze en Syrie. II: l’Euphrate et la région de Jézireh
Matthews, R. 1994 “Excavations at Tell Brak”
Matthews, Roger 2003 “Issues and Approaches”
Matthews, W. 1994 “Excavations at Tell Brak”
Mazzoni, Stefania 1985 “Frontières céramiques et le Haut Euphrate au Bronze Ancien IV”
McDonald, E. 2001 Excavations at Tell Brak. Vol. 2: Nagar in the III millennium BC
McDonald, H. 1994 “Excavations at Tell Brak”
1987 Excavations at Tell Brak. The Mitanni and Old Babylonian Periods
McMahon, A. 1995 “Investigation of the Early Dynastic-Akkadian Transition: Report of the 18th and 19th Seasons of Excavation in Area WF”
McMahon, Augusta 2001 “New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000”
2007 “Late Third Millennium BC Pottery Assemblage from Chagar Bazar (Area D, Phase II)”
M. Evans, Jean 2008 Beyond Babylon. Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
Miftah, M. 2007 “Chantier D. Phase II. Stratigraphie, Architecture, Installations”
Müge, Bulu 2021 “A Fresh Perspective on the Middle Bronze Age at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: The 2007-2019 Seasons”
Oates, D 2001 Excavations at Tell Brak. Vol. 2: Nagar in the III millennium BC
Oates, J. 1982 “Some late Early Dynastic III pottery from Tell Brak”
1985 “Tell Brak and Chronology: the Third Millennium”
2001 “The Third-millennium Pottery”
2001 Excavations at Tell Brak. Vol. 2: Nagar in the III millennium BC
1987 Excavations at Tell Brak. The Mitanni and Old Babylonian Periods
Oguchi, H. 1997 “A Reassessment of the Distribution of Khabur Ware: An Approach from an Aspect of its Main Phase”
2001 “The Origins of Khabur Ware: A Tentative Note”
Orsi, V. 2008 “La produzione ceramica di Tell Barri tra la fine del III e l’inizio del II millennio a.C.”
2008 “Between Continuity and Transformation: The Late 3rd Millennium BC Ceramic Sequence from Tell Barri (Syria)”
2010 “The Passage from the Early Bronze to the Middle Bronze Age in the Jezirah: A Parallel between Tell Mozan and Tell Barri Ceramic Sequences “
Orthmann, W. 1991 Gräber des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. im syrischen Euphrattal. 2. Ausgrabungen in Wreide
Özfiırat, A. 2012 “Üçtepe and Diyarbakır Area During the Early Middle Bronze Age”
Pfälzner, P. 1995 Mittanische und Mittelassyrische Keramik. Eine chronologische funktionnale und produktionsokonomische analise
2007 “The Late Bronze Age Ceramic Traditions of the Syrian Jazirah”
Pfälzner, Peter 2012 Looking North: The Socioeconomic Dynamics of the Northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian Regions during the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC
2008 “Das Tempeloval von Urkeš. Betrachtungen zur Typologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte der mesopotamischen Ziqqurrat im 3. Jt. v. Chr.”
Porter, A. 2002 “The Late Bronze Age Ceramic Traditions of the Syrian Jazirah”
Pruß, A. 2000 “Stratified Archaeological Evidence and Compared Periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the Third Millennium BC”
Quenet, P. 2007 “Late Third Millennium BC Pottery Assemblage from Chagar Bazar (Area D, Phase II)”
Reade, J. 2001 “Ninive – Das späte 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.”
Reiche, Andrzej 2013 “Ninevite 5 kitchen from Tell Arbid (Sector W)”
Roaf, M. 2000 “Stratified Archaeological Evidence and Compared Periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the Third Millennium BC”
Rova, E. 2000 “Stratified Archaeological Evidence and Compared Periodizations in the Syrian Jezirah during the Third Millennium BC”
1991 Gräber des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. im syrischen Euphrattal. 2. Ausgrabungen in Wreide
Rova, Elena 2007 “The Late Chalcolithic Period in the Tell Leilan Region: A Report on the Ceramic Material of the 1995 Survey”
2008 “The Late Chalcolithic Settlement in the Leilan Region of Northeastern Syria: A Preliminary Assessment”
1996 “Ceramic Provinces along the Middle and Upper Euphrates:
2003 “The IIIrd Millennium Pottery Morphology.
2011 “Ceramic”
Satır, M. 2008 “On the Origin of the Northmesopotamian Metallic Ware: A New View from Sediment Geochemistry”
Schmidt, C. 2012 Ausgrabungen 1998-2001 in der Zentralen Oberstadt von Tall Mozan/Urkeš. Die Keramik der Früh-Ğazīra V bis Alt-Ğazīra II-Zeit
Schneider, G. 2000 “Water Permeability and Thermal Shock Resistance of 6th–3rd Millennium Cooking Pots from North Mesopotamia”
2001 “Stone Ware and Ninevite 5: Notes on Composition and Technology of Pottery from Tell Brak”
Smogorzewska, Anna 2013 “Ninevite 5 kitchen from Tell Arbid (Sector W)”
2013 “Fenestrated pot stands in Ninevite 5 pottery tradition: New evidence from Tell Arbid (north–east Syria)”
2014 “Ninevite 5 Kitchen Ware: Morphology and Technological Characteristic”
2016 “The final stage of Ninevite 5 pottery: Morphological types, technology and diachronic analysis from Tell Arbid (north-east Syria)”
2018 Tell Arbit House and Household in a Changing Town, Excavations in Area D
Stein, Diana L. 1984 Khabur Ware and Nuzi Ware: Their Origin, Relationship, and Significance
Taniguchi, Y. 2003 “Ethnoarchaeological Research on a Modern Pottery Workshop in Qamishli, Syria”
Tara, Ingman 2021 “A Fresh Perspective on the Middle Bronze Age at Tell Atchana, Alalakh: The 2007-2019 Seasons”
Thissen, L.C. 1989 “An Early Bronze III Pottery Region between the Middle Euphrates and Habur. New Evidence from Tell Hammam at-Turkman”
Tunca, Ö. 2007 “Chantier D. Phase II. Stratigraphie, Architecture, Installations”
Tunca, Önhan 2001 “New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000”
Valentini, Stefano 2012 Looking North: The Socioeconomic Dynamics of the Northern Mesopotamian and Anatolian Regions during the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC
✝Wegner (Haas), Ilse 2020 An Introduction To the Hurrian Language. Revised, edited, and reformatted by Allan R. Bomhard