Peter Akkermans
Dutch Near Eastern archaeologist
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Peter Akkermans's Degrees
- PhD Archaeology Leiden University
- Masters Archaeology Leiden University
- Bachelors Archaeology Leiden University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter M. M. G. Akkermans is a Dutch archaeologist and Professor of Ancient Near Eastern archaeology at Leiden University. Akkermans was awarded his doctorate for work on the late Neolithic period in Syria. He was a curator at the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities between 1990 and 2009 and has directed and been involved with excavations in Syria, Turkey, Germany and Bulgaria. His most important work has been on the Pre-pottery Neolithic B, Neolithic, Halaf and Bronze Age site of Tell Sabi Abyad, including surveys of the Balikh Valley area in northern Syria. He published an extensive compilation of Syria's archaeology with Glenn M. Schwarz in 2003 titled The Archaeology of Syria.
Peter Akkermans's Published Works
Published Works
- Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding (2008) (537)
- The Archaeology of Syria - From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Society, ca. 16,000-300 BC (2003) (190)
- The archaeology of Syria (2003) (73)
- Of Storage and Nomads – The Sealings from Late Neolithic Sabi Abyad, Syria (1996) (68)
- Not so coarse, nor always plain – the earliest pottery of Syria (2010) (53)
- An Image of Complexity: The Burnt Village at Late Neolithic Sabi Abyad, Syria (1995) (52)
- Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of Northern Syria: New Evidence from Tell Sabi Abyad (2006) (50)
- Villages in the steppe : later Neolithic settlement and subsistence in the Balikh Valley, northern Syria (1993) (49)
- Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event (2011) (45)
- Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia (2013) (44)
- Tracing pottery use and the emergence of secondary product exploitation through lipid residue analysis at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) (2015) (37)
- A landscape of preservation: late prehistoric settlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurma region, north-eastern Jordan (2014) (28)
- An Updated Chronology for the Northern Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic Periods in Syria: New Evidence from Tell Hammam Et-Turkman (1988) (27)
- Retracing the Steppes: A zooarchaeological Anlaysis of Changing Subsitence Patterns in the Late Neolithic at Tell Sabi Abyad, Northern Syria, c. 6900 to 5900 BC (2006) (25)
- On the frontier of Assyria: excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad, 1991 (1993) (22)
- A Late Neolithic and Early Halaf Village at Sabi Abyad, Northern Syria (1987) (19)
- The Fortress of Ili-pada - Middle Assyrian Architecture at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (2006) (18)
- Excavations At Tell Sabi Abyad: Prehistoric Investigations In The Balikh Valley, Northern Syria (1989) (18)
- Burning down the house: the burnt building V6 at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (2012) (18)
- The 1988 Excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad, a Later Neolithic Village in Northern Syria (1992) (17)
- Seals and Seal Impressions from Middle Assyrian Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (1997) (16)
- More Seals and Sealings from Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (2004) (15)
- The period V Pottery (1988) (14)
- Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: The 1994-1999 Field Seasons (2014) (14)
- Tell Sabi Abyad : the late neolithic settlement : report on the excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria (1998) (14)
- 1985 Excavations at Tell Leilan, Syria (1990) (14)
- Tell Sabi Abyad, The Late Neolithic Settlement, Leiden & Istanbul, 1 (1996) (13)
- The Neolithic of the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria: A First Assessment (1989) (12)
- Tell Sabi Abyad II: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement: Report on the Excavations of the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden in the Balikh Valley, Syria (2000) (11)
- Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Dating of Neolithic Cemeteries (2014) (10)
- Halaf mortuary practices: A survey (1989) (10)
- The Soundings at Tell Damishliyya (1988) (10)
- III COMPTES RENDUS - The Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (ca. 16000-300 B.C.) (2004) (9)
- Skeletons in the fortress: the Late Bronze Age burials of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (2015) (9)
- Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: An Interpretation of Stable Isotope Values of Faunal Bone Collagen (2012) (8)
- Burying the Dead in Late Neolithic Syria (2006) (8)
- The period IV Pottery (1988) (7)
- Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic (2019) (7)
- Excavations at Tell Sabi Abyad, Northern Syria : A Regional Centre on the Assyrian Frontier (1990) (7)
- Landscapes of Survival. The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Jordan’s North-Eastern Desert and Beyond (1970) (7)
- Hunter-Gatherer Continuity: the Transition from the Epipalaeolithic to the Neolithic in Syria (2004) (6)
- Late Neolithic Architectural Renewal : The Emergence of Round Houses in the Northern Levant, c. 6500-6000 BC (2010) (6)
- Tradition and Social Change in Northern Mesopotamia during the later Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC (1989) (5)
- Cultural Transformation and the 8.2.ka event in Upper Mesopotamia (2015) (5)
- New radiocarbon dates for the Later Neolithic of Northern Syria (1991) (5)
- Breaking continuity? Site formation and temporal depth at Çatalhöyük and Tell Sabi Abyad (2021) (5)
- Old and New Perspectives on the Origins of the Halaf Culture (2000) (5)
- Nothing but Cold Ashes? The Cairn Burials of Jebel Qurma, Northeastern Jordan (2017) (4)
- Tell Leilan 1987 Operation 3 : A Preliminary Report on The Lower Town Palace (1987) (4)
- Excavations at Tell Damishliyya, A Neolithic Settlement in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria (1986) (4)
- Tell Sabi Abyad 1994-1999 Campaigns: Late Neolithic Stratigraphy and Architecture (2014) (3)
- Long-Term Settlement Trends in Jordan’s Northeastern Badia : The Jabal Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project (2018) (3)
- Living on the Edge or Forced into the Margins? Hunter-Herders in Jordan's Northeastern Badlands in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (2019) (3)
- A Middle Assyrian Pottery Kiln at Tell Sabi Abyad (2001) (3)
- Architecture and Social Continuity at Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad III, Syria (2019) (3)
- A Sealed Double Cremation at Middle Assyrian Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria (2008) (3)
- Settlement and Emergent Complexity in Western Syria, c. 7000–2500 bce (2014) (2)
- Tell Sabi Abyad II - The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement, Leiden & Istanbul (2000) (2)
- When the bullet hits the bone (1999) (2)
- Landscapes of Survival: Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan's Black Desert, c. 1000 BC to 500 AD (2014) (1)
- To the Euphrates and Beyond (2020) (1)
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement Patterns along the Balikh and Euphrates - Fact or Fiction? (1999) (1)
- The Northern Levant During the Neolithic Period (2013) (1)
- The Archaeology of Rank@@@Villages in the Steppe: Late Neolithic Settlement and Subsistence in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria@@@Village Spaces: Settlement and Society in Northeastern Iran (1995) (0)
- The Other Small Finds From The Prehistoric Strata (1989) (0)
- Tell Sabi Abyad (Raqqa) (2016) (0)
- Settlement Dynamics and High-Precision 14C Dating (2006) (0)
- Prehistoric Western Asia (2020) (0)
- ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF THE NEAR EAST IV B Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas (2000) (0)
- Development and change in the organization of settlement and architecture of rural northern Syria during the late Roman period (c. AD 400700) (2005) (0)
- Archeological investigations in the Balikh valley, northern Syria (1991) (0)
- Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from Tell Sabi Abyad (2004) (0)
- Climate and ancient societies (2015) (0)
- Tell Sabi Abyad: The Archaeology of a Neolithic Community (2011) (0)
- Archaeology of Town and Country in the Circum-Mediterranean Lands (2006) (0)
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