The Scale and Extent of Political Economies of the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah and the Bilād al-Šām (c. 1800-1600 BCE)
The present thesis investigates the material scale of six political economiesdistributed across the dry-farming plains and piedmonts of the Middle Bronze AgeJazīrah and the Bilād al-Šām. This is done using a comparative and interdisciplinaryapproach combining the large-scale analysis of administrative cuneiform texts withthe compilation of relevant archaeological survey datasets. Drawing on theori
