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Nonadministrative Documents from Archaic Ur and from Early Dynastic I–II Mesopotamia: A New Textual and Archaeological Analysis by Lecompte, Camille, Benati, Giacomo

“…The present paper addresses a subgroup of cuneiform documents from the so-called Archaic Texts from Ur in Mesopotamia. The documents in this subgroup can be…”
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Climate change and state evolution by Benati, Giacomo, Guerriero, Carmine

“…Despite the vast evidence on the short-run effects of adverse climate shocks on the economy, our understanding of their long-run impact on institutions is…”
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Combining social sciences, geoscience and archaeology to understand societal collapse by Benati, Giacomo, Guerriero, Carmine

“…Despite its apparently obvious conclusion that adverse environmental conditions must produce economic and institutional crises, the “collapse archaeology”…”
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The origins of political institutions and property rights by Benati, Giacomo, Guerriero, Carmine, Zaina, Federico

“…We study the possible cooperation between nonelites exerting an unobservable effort and elites unable to commit to direct transfers and, thus, always assure…”
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The economic and institutional determinants of trade expansion in Bronze Age Greater Mesopotamia by Benati, Giacomo, Guerriero, Carmine, Zaina, Federico

“…The focus of archaeologists on reconstructing exchange and communication networks in the past resulted in the enormous improvement of methods for analyzing…”
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Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations by Baten, Joerg, Benati, Giacomo, Ferber, Sarah

“…A'Hearn, Delfino, and Nuvolari recently argued in this journal that the indicator function of age heaping for education, and numeracy in particular, is quite…”
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Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 bce by Baten, Joerg, Benati, Giacomo, Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz

“…How did interpersonal violence develop in early human societies? Given that homicide records are only available for the more recent period, much of human…”
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THE BEGINNING OF THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD AT UR by Benati, Giacomo

“…This article presents a reconsideration of the architecture, stratigraphy and finds from Building Level H, excavated in Trial Pit Fat Ur. Analysis of Woolley's…”
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NEARCHOS. Networked Archaeological Open Science: Advances in Archaeology Through Field Analytics and Scientific Community Sharing by Marchetti, Nicolò, Angelini, Ivana, Artioli, Gilberto, Benati, Giacomo, Bitelli, Gabriele, Curci, Antonio, Marfia, Gustavo, Roccetti, Marco

“…The full release and circulation of excavation results often takes decades, thus slowing down progress in archaeology to a degree not in keeping with other…”
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