"The Third Millennium City Wall at Tell Leilan, Syria: Identity, Authority and Urbanism," in J. Bretschneider, J. Driessen and K. Vanlerberghe, eds., Monumental Public Architecrure in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean. Leuven: Peters, pp. 183-212.
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"The Akkadian Occupation in the Northwest Area of the Tell Leilan Acropolis", KASKAL Volume 4, 2007.
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"Holocene Climate and Cultural Evolution in Late Prehistoric-Early Historic West Asia," in M. Staubwasser and H. Weiss, eds., Holocene Climate and Cultural Evolution in Late Prehistoric-Early Historic West Asia. Quaternary Research (special issue) Volume 66, Issue 3 (November), pp. 372-387.
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Table 1 [ JPEG - 136 KB ]

"Settlement, Economy, and Society in the Tell Leilan Region, Syria, 3000-1000 BC", PhD Dissertation, University of Cambridge, July 22, 2005.
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"The Häbür Region in the Late Third and Early Second Millennium B.C.," in Winfried Orthmann, ed., The History and Archaeology of Syria. Vol. 1. Saarbrucken: Saarbrucken Verlag.
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Fig 1. Ancient North Mesop map [ PDF - 172 KB ]
Fig 2. Habur surveys map [ PDF - 248 KB ]
Fig 3. Van Oman Soreq [ PDF - 80 KB ]
Fig 4. LRS Period IIb [ PDF - 100 KB ]
Fig 5. Period IIc [ PDF - 112 KB ]
Fig 6. Period I [ PDF - 124 KB ]
Fig 7. LRS Histogram [ PDF - 48 KB ]
Fig 8. Tell Taya Stratigraphy [ PDF - 516 KB ]
Fig 9. Sagir Bazar Old Babylonian closely packed domestic quarters [ PDF - 72 KB ]
Fig 10. Lyonnet survey [ PDF - 128 KB ]
Fig 11. Baidar survey [ PDF - 168 KB ]
Fig 12. Acrop Pd I BL II facade [ JPEG - 260 KB ]
Fig 13. Lower Town Palace East isometric [ PDF - 1.6 KB ]
Fig 14. LRS Period 0 [ PDF - 108 KB ]
Fig 15. LRS 186 Farfara [ PDF - 72 KB ]

"The Akkadian Administration on the Tell Leilan Acropolis" 4ICAANE Berlin March 29-April 3, 2004 Tell Leilan Project Poster Presentations
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"Why 'Dada Measured 40,000 Liters of Barley from Nagar for Sippar'" 4ICAANE Berlin March 29-April 3, 2004 Tell Leilan Project Poster Presentations
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The Dynamics of State Development and Imperialization at Third Millennium Tell Leilan, Syria In Orient Express Vol. 21, No 2.
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Ninevite 5 Periods and Processes. In The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, society. Brussels: Brepols. E. Rova and H. Weiss, editors.
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Fig 8. Ninevite 5 Absolute Chronology [ PDF - 12.0 KB ]
Fig 10. Tell Leilan Survey Period IV--LC 5 (ca. 3400-3000 BC) [ PDF - 132.0 KB ]
Fig 11. Tell Leilan Survey Period IV--Southern Uruk (ca. 3400-3000 BC) [ PDF - 132.0 KB ]
Fig 12. Tell Leilan Survey Period IIIa (ca. 3000-2900 BC) [ PDF - 175.0 KB ]
Fig 13. 5.2 ka BP Abrupt Climate Change [ PDF - 84.0 KB ]

Chemical Characterization of Tablets, Sealing Clays, and Source Clays from Tell Leilan, Syria In The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, society. Brussels: Brepols. E. Rova and H. Weiss, editors.
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Ninevite 5 Period Agriculture at Tell Leilan: Preliminary Results In The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, society. Brussels: Brepols. E. Rova and H. Weiss, editors.
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The Ninevite 5 Chipped Stone Assemblage from Tell Leilan: Preliminary Results In The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, society. Brussels: Brepols. E. Rova and H. Weiss, editors.
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The Ninevite 5 Sequence of Glyptic at Tell Leilan In The origins of North Mesopotamian civilization: Ninevite 5 chronology, economy, society. Brussels: Brepols. E. Rova and H. Weiss, editors.
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Glyptic Evidence 1993-1999 from Tell Leilan IIa-IIb Periods
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Revising the contours of history at Tell Leilan. Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes, Cinquantenaire.
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Fig. 7. Table 1. Cultivated taxa within Tell Leilan flotation samples (W. Wetterstrom) [ PDF - 8.0 KB ]
Fig. 8. Period II-III pooled paleobotanical samples (W. Wetterstrom) [ PDF - 8.0 KB ]
Fig. 9. Periods IIIa-b, IIId, IIa, IIb paleobotanical samples (W. Wetterstrom) [ PDF - 8.0 KB ]
Fig. 10. Leilan IIb Acropolis last floor weighted average, calibrated, 8 barley (1 harvest) radiocarbon samples [ PDF - 16.0 KB ]
Fig. 11. Leilan regional survey, period IIb [ PDF - 216.0 KB ]
Fig. 12. Leilan regional survey, period "IIc" [ PDF - 212.0 KB ]
Fig. 13. Leilan regional survey, period I [ PDF - 224.0 KB ]

What drives societal collapse? Science, 291: 609-610.
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Cultural responses to climate change during the late Holocene. Science, 292: 667-673.
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Beyond the younger Dryas: Collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In Environmental disaster and the archaeology of human response, Edited by Garth Bawden and Richard Martin Reycraft. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers, No. 7: 75-95.
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Imperial responses to environmental dynamics at the late Third Millennium Tell Leilan. Orient Express, 4:94-99.
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Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea. Geology, 28: 379-382.
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The genesis and collapse of Third Millennium north Mesopotamian Civilization. Science, 291: 995-1088.
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Merchants of Susa: Godin V and plateau-lowland relations in the late Fourth Millennium BC. Iran, 10:1-17.
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