All Stories

  1. Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 bce

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  2. Combining social sciences, geoscience and archaeology to understand societal collapse

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  3. The origins of political institutions and property rights

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  4. Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations

    Article • The Economic History Review, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  5. Clash of the Titans: The Economics of Early Bronze Age Mesopotamia Between Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Models

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  6. The economic and institutional determinants of trade expansion in Bronze Age Greater Mesopotamia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  7. Climate change and state evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  8. The origins of the state: technology, cooperation and institutions

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  9. NEARCHOS. Networked Archaeological Open Science: Advances in Archaeology Through Field Analytics and Scientific Community Sharing

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Research, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giacomo Benati, Prof. Gilberto Artioli

  10. Nonadministrative Documents from Archaic Ur and from Early Dynastic I–II Mesopotamia: A New Textual and Archaeological Analysis

    Article • Journal of Cuneiform Studies, January 2017, The American Schools of Oriental Research

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  11. From Field Cards to Cuneiform Archives: Two Inscribed Artifacts from Archaic Ur and Their Archaeological Context

    Article • Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Giacomo Benati, Camille Lecompte

  12. THE BEGINNING OF THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD AT UR

    Article • Iraq, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giacomo Benati