Harvey Weiss, PhD
Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of Forestry and Environmental StudiesCards
About
Titles
Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Education & Training
- PhD
- University of Pennsylvania (1976)
- BA
- City College, C.U.N.Y. (1966)
Research
Publications
- “Micro- and Macro-Contexts of the Tell Leilan Eastern Lower Town Palace Archives,” (co-authored 2008)Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- “Holocene Climate and Cultural Evolution in Late Prehistoric-Early Historic West Asia,” Quaternary Research (co-authored 2006)Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- “Ninevite 5 Periods and Processes,” in E. Rova and H. Weiss, eds., eds., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization (2003).Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- “The Habur Region in the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC” in The History and Archaeology of Syria (co-authored 2005).Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- Weiss, Harvey, ed. 2012 Seven Generations since the Fall of Akkad. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
- Weiss, H. 2014 "Altered Trajectories: The Intermediate Bronze Age," in A. Killebrew and M. Steiner, eds. Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant. Oxford University Press.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
Media
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Tell Leilan 1989 Lower Town South residential area with planned street leading to Acropolis, 2600-2200 BC. H. Weiss et al 1993 "The Genesis and Collapse of North Mesopotamian Civilization," Science 261: 995-1004.Weiss et al Fig 12 TUB SECTION--modded, text inverted-Besonen Sept 29
The Unfinished Building, Tell Leilan 1999. An Akkadian monumental storage building, with walls of trimmed basalt blocks and mudbrick, was left unfinished at the Akkadian and indigenous population abandonment of Tell Leilan at ca. 2200 BC synchronous with the global 4.2 ka BP abrupt climate change.