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Evidence at Tell Brak for the late ED III / early Akkadian airt blast event (4 kyr BP)essay 2001 • Courty, M. A. (Marie-Agnès)
Akkadian • Middle East > Middle East
Courty discusses the regional blast event that occurred around 4000 years ago. It shows up in deposits as dust fallout. Using stratigraphic evidence from area CH deposits at Tell Brak she is able to more precisely date the event, disusses how archaeo...The genesis and collapse of the Akkadian empireessay 1993 • Weiss, Harvey & Courty, M. A. (Marie-Agnès)
Akkadian • Middle East > Middle East
A new model of the Akkadian empire results from recent archaeological fieldwork on the Habur Plains. This model situates the Akkadian empire at the end of a lengthy period of southern Mesopotamian state economy, evolution, and experimentation. Based ...