A recently published study by ROOTS scientific coordinator Andrea Ricci offers new perspectives on landscape and settlement development in northern Mesopotamia from the 5th to 3rd millennium BCE. It reveals that small villages situated away from the river played a pivotal role in shaping the region's settlement patterns. Read more: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/wie-kleine-doerfer-das-praehistorischen-nordmesopotamien-praegten
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