The investigation of past cultures of the Middle East through the study and scientific analysis of material remains (i.e., osteological, artifactual, architectural, etc.).
A description including: emergence, excavation, discovery and decipherment, reconstructing history, and a table of Mesopotamian chronology. www.ianlawton.com/mes1.htm
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 an www.fas.harvard.edu/~stoneage
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 Ira www.chass.utoronto.ca/nmcusa
From Yahoo!, thriving Bronze Age drug trade supplied narcotics to ancient cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean as balm for the pain of childbirth and disease, proving a sophisticated knowledge of medicines dating back thousands of years. story.news.yahoo.com/../../../../israel_ancient_narcotics_1
A multi-year excavation and survey project aimed at defining archaeological correlates of ancient imperialism, colonialism and culture contact in the Mesopotamian frontier zone. www.utarp.org
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 m oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/PRE/Prehistoric.html
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 . www.neareasternarchaeology.com
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 geoarchaeologic antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/deckers/index.html
From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East. dailystar.com.lb/..
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