Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Development and Transformation of Settlements and Settlement Systems in the Khabur Headwater Region
5. 20th Century BC in the Khabur Triangle Region and the Advent of the Old Assyrian Trade with Anatolia 11
6. Neue Tontafelfunde aus dem mitannizeitlichen Taidu – Ein Vorbericht 35
7. Tell Abu Hafur ‘East’, Tell Arbid (Northeastern Syria), and Nemrik (Northern Iraq) as Examples of Small-Scale Rural Settlements in Upper Mesopotamia in the Mittani Period 43
8. Tell Fekheriye in the Late Bronze Age: Archaeological Investigations into the Structures of Political Governance in the Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont 61
9. Settlement Patterns of the Middle Assyrian State: Notes toward an Investigation of State Apparatuses 85
10. From Text to Tell: Governance and the Geography of Political Space according to Middle Assyrian Administrative Documents 107
11. Development and Transformation of Settlements and Settlement Systems in the Upper Tigris Region
12. Ritual Practices and the Emergence of Social Complexity in the Upper Tigris Region at the Beginning of the Second Millennium BC 119
13. The Upper Tigris – Cultural Autonomy or Interdependence? The Case of Ziyaret Tepe and Giricano 131
14. Salat Tepe and its Vicinity in the Middle Bronze Age: Stratigraphic Sequence and Ceramic Assemblages 151
15. Across the Mountains
16. The Upper Khabur and the Upper Tigris Valleys during the Late Bronze Age: Settlements and Ceramic Horizons 169
17. Die Stadt Kaḫat. Vorposten der königlichen Jagden in Mittelassyrischer Zeit 201
18. Index 223