The investigators model human-environment interaction in the growth and decline of Bronze Age settlement systems for both the rain-fed and irrigated zones of Syria and Iraq. The household is a fundamental modeling unit.
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Christiansen, John; Gibson, McGuire; Wilkinson, Tony (PI). 2004. Settlement Systems within a Dynamic Environment and Economy: Contrasting Northern and Southern Mesopotamian City Regions. Project proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory.
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2004
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