Lamya Khalidi

TL;DR: This period would have witnessed the development of local Middle Paleolithic traditions in the Arabian Peninsula, which suggests more complex settlement dynamics and possible population interactions than commonly inferred by the current models of modern human expansion out of Africa.

TL;DR: The first discoveries of Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeological sites in association with the Mundafan palaeolake are reported, indicating that humans repeatedly penetrated the ameliorated environments of the Rub’ al-Khali.

TL;DR: X-ray fluorescence and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses conducted on 40 obsidian samples from the Late Chalcolithic 2 levels at Tell Hamoukar and Tell Brak in north-east Syria have shown trends towards the exploitation of obsidian sources in the eastern Taurus.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored two key episodes in Mesopotamian political and social history, developing early social complexity in the fifth to fourth millennia BC and the shift from territorial state to early empire in the second millennium BC.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) simulations of an exchange network where some agents (villages) are allowed to attain long-distance exchange partners through correlated random walks and show that a type of small-world exchange network could explain the breadth of obsidian distribution (up to 800 km from source) during the Near Eastern Neolithic period.