Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria - Subartu

This volume corresponds to the acts of a conference that closes the international interdisciplinary research project Badiyah. The two sites of Tell Al-Rawda and Tell Chuera illustrate the importance of the 3rd millennium BCE â_~circular citiesâ_T discovered in todayâ_Ts Syria. These pre-planned cities were fortified and organized following a concentric and radial urban pattern. They represent a particular form of the endogenous process of urbanization that appeared in this region when the first cities and territorial states emerged. The main results obtained from these two sites are compared to other Syrian â_~circular citiesâ_T of the Early Bronze Age across twenty-nine contributions.