A5064058567- Ancient Near East History
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Islamic Studies and History
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Mineralogy and Gemology Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
Harvard University
2016-2024
Harvard University Press
2017-2023
SIL International
2017
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
2017
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
2017
University of Virginia
2017
National Bureau of Economic Research
2017
Center for Economic and Policy Research
2017
University of Chicago
2017
University of Copenhagen
2013
The Yamnaya expansions from the western steppe into Europe and Asia during Early Bronze Age (~3000 BCE) are believed to have brought with them Indo-European languages possibly horse husbandry. We analyzed 74 ancient whole-genome sequences across Inner Anatolia show that Botai people associated earliest husbandry derived a hunter-gatherer population deeply diverged Yamnaya. Our results also suggest distinct migrations bringing West Eurasian ancestry South before after, but not at time of,...
Abstract We analyze a large data set of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the nineteenth century BCE. Using information from these records, we estimate structural gravity model long-distance trade Bronze Age. use our to locate lost ancient cities. In many cases, estimates confirm conjectures historians who follow different methodologies. some instances, one conjecture against others. also structurally city sizes and offer evidence support hypothesis that cities tend emerge...
500 years of ancient Near Eastern history from the earlier second millennium BCE, including such pivotal figures as Hammurabi Babylon, Šamši-Adad I (who conquered Aššur) and Zimrilim Mari, has long floated in calendar time subject to rival chronological schemes up 150+ apart. Texts preserved on clay tablets provide much information, some astronomical references, but despite 100+ scholarly effort, resolution proved impossible. Documents linked with specific Assyrian officials rulers have been...
This paper provides the first comprehensive sourcing analysis of tin ingots carried by well-known Late Bronze Age shipwreck found off Turkish coast at Uluburun (ca. 1320 BCE). Using lead isotope, trace element, and isotope analyses, this study demonstrates that ores from Central Asia (Uzbekistan Tajikistan) were used to produce one-third ingots. The remaining two-thirds derived Taurus Mountains Turkey, namely, stream residual low-grade mineralization after extensive exploitation in Early...
Summary The Assyrian merchant records from Kültepe near Kayseri contain the first textual references to production and trade in wine Central Anatolia. Predictably, those are mainly of a commercial nature provide information about quantity, containers, price. Sometimes, they also mention geographical origin give occasional hints consumption wine. References scarce. Only 33 texts out ca. 12,500 (see Appendix 1). Fortunately, limited evidence can be connected broader material record that...
We analyze a large dataset of commercial records produced by Assyrian merchants in the 19th Century BCE.Using information collected from these records, we estimate structural gravity model long-distance trade Bronze Age.We use our to locate lost ancient cities.In many instances, estimates confirm conjectures historians who follow different methodologies.In some one conjecture against others.Confronting for city sizes modern data on population, income, and regional trade, document persistent...
A new Old Assyrian incantation against the evil eye (ēnum lamuttum) is published here, adding to steadily increasing number of such texts. Parallels Babylonian examples are provided, and in context a discussion religious life practice merchants, other texts from Kültepe with previously unattested gods information concerning private chapel presented.
We recount the evidence for so-called “Steppe Hypothesis” discussed in Damgaard et al. 2018 and offer a revised linguistic historical model prehistoric dispersal of three important Indo-European language subgroups—the Anatolian languages into Anatolia, Tocharian Inner Asia, Indo-Iranian South Asia—based on newly analysed archaeogenetic data.