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CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS IN WESTERN SYRIA AND THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES VALLEY DURING THE THIRD MILLENNIUM BC
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Syrian–Turkish border at Carchemish down to the confluence of the Balikh and the Euphrates just below the site of Tell Bi’a (anc ...

regimes elevated agro-pastoral productivity to an unprecedented scale in antiquity. In contrast, all areas of western Syria depe ...

EB IV, the last phase of the Early Bronze Age is generally thought to begin around 2500 BCin Western Syria and c. 2450 – 2400 BC ...

postulated these were actually colonial enclaves, settled by peoples from southern Mesopotamia (Akkermans and Schwartz 2003 : 19 ...

its elevated position and monumentality, the temple at Tell Halawa B would no doubt have played a significant role in the religi ...

Mozan and Hamoukar grew up to 120 ha and featured urban characteristics such as large-scale secular elite complexes, monumental ...

eminence at the site and the importance of the individuals buried within it (Peltenburg et al. 1995 : 7 – 10 ; Peltenburg 1999 : ...

Fortifications appear with increasing frequency and size within several settlements of the Euphrates Valley after c. 2500 BC, an ...

uity (Bounni and al-Maqdissi 1994 : 29 ; Mazzoni 2002 : 75 ). Whatever their function, petrographic analysis of the wares implie ...

Sin also marched up the Euphrates River, destroying cities such as Mari and Tuttul (Tell Bi’a) on their way to further conquests ...

WESTERN SYRIAN/MIDDLE EUPHRATES–SUMERIAN INTERCONNECTIONS This overview of developments in the third millennium BCin the Euphrat ...

(Klengel 1992 : 22 ; Akkermans and Schwartz 2003 : 239 ). Finely crafted art objects discovered in Ebla’s Palace G comprise many ...

Sumer, the peoples of western Syria and middle Euphrates Valley continued to follow their own distinctive modes of cultural beha ...

southern Mesopotamia, as evidenced by the fragments of a carved stele from the temple in antisat Halawa Tell A, whose layout in ...

indications of ruling families outside of the evidence for rich tombs are not always easy to find. In western Syria, evidence fo ...

of these differences. The unique tribal pastoral character, particularly in the middle Euphrates, may account for distinctive so ...

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