Science: Archaeology: Regional: Middle East

The University of California San Diego reports on its projects in Israel and Jordan.

Mark McDonald provides information and links on the archaeological sites of the region from Turkey to Southwestern Iran.

A description including: emergence, excavation, discovery and decipherment, reconstructing history, and a table of Mesopotamian chronology.

Discussion of the archaeology of Old World legumes including pictures and readings.

Established in 1957, the lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Includes: links, staff, projects and contact information.

Bibliographies of archaeobotanical site reports from the Near East and watercolors.

Devoted to the study of the ancient (from c. 3100 BCE) and contemporary cultures found within modern day Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Iraq, (to some extent Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Georgia) and western Iran.

From Ekathimerini, away from the ongoing violence, researchers uncover the vestiges of Palestine's Byzantine past.

A multi-year excavation and survey project aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in the Mesopotamian frontier zone.

Report of the Oriental Institute's geomorphological projects within the Jazira of Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

List of links maintained by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

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 .

Archive of news, articles, blog postings and commentary, as well as links and directory listings.

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