Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean

Middle Euphrates

Edited by Uwe Finkbeiner Edited by Mirko Novak Edited by Ferhan Sakal Edited by Paola Sconzo

Book cover: Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean

Extent: 493, 493 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Arcane

Series volume number: 4

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2015)

ISBN: 9782503534954

8.23 x 11.57 inches

Price: $182.00

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The present study takes into account the results of more than forty sites. In agreement with the principles of ARCANE the richly illustrated account is divided along find groups and written by experts who supplemented their specific chronological findings thus arriving at a new periodization and terminology for the 3rd millennium.


The Middle Euphrates region extends between the regions Jazirah and Northern Levant; it follows the course of the Euphrates from the south flanks of the Taurus mountains in Turkey almost to the modern borderline to Iraq. The settlement area drawn out between steppes in the east and in the west owes its particular character to just that life line with its fat soils but also to the trade routes meeting at the Euphrates Bend and connecting Anatolia to Mesopotamia and the Syrian east to the Levant. Especially for the 3rd millennium, finds and findings from the area under consideration show great cultural variety and demonstrate the different influences by the neighbouring regions that meet here at the Euphrates river. The international rescue excavations in the wake of dam projects in Turkey as well as in Syria yielded abundant material. The present study takes into account the results of more than forty sites. In agreement with the principles of ARCANE the richly illustrated account is divided along find groups and written by experts who supplemented their specific chronological findings thus arriving at a new periodization and terminology for the 3rd millennium.

  • Edited by Uwe Finkbeiner
  • Edited by Mirko Novak
  • Edited by Ferhan Sakal
  • Edited by Paola Sconzo