All Stories

  1. The origins of (a culture of) cooperation

    Article • The Journal of Law Economics and Organization, February 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  2. Climate shocks, democratization and (a culture of) cooperation

    Article • Economica, January 2026, Wiley

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  3. 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

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

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  5. The origins of political institutions and property rights

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

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

    Article • The Economic History Review, January 2022, Wiley

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  7. 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

  8. The Origins of (a Culture of) Cooperation.

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

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

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  10. 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

  11. The Economic and Institutional Determinants of Trade Expansion in Bronze Age Mesopotamia

    Article • January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giacomo Benati

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

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

    Dr Giacomo Benati

  13. The Rise of Urbanized Landscapes in Mesopotamia: The QADIS Integrated Survey Results and the Interpretation of Multi-Layered Historical Landscapes

    Article • Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Nicolò Marchetti, Dr Giacomo Benati

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. THE BEGINNING OF THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD AT UR

    Article • Iraq, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giacomo Benati