Harvey Weiss

Harvey Weiss (* 1945 ) is an American professor of Near Eastern archeology , anthropology and ancient Near Eastern studies at Yale University .

The archaeologist, who received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 , has led the excavations at Tell Leilan since 1978 and is best known for his research on the influence of climatic conditions on cultural changes. His research focus is the time of the kingdom of Akkade , from which a royal palace was found in Tell Leilan. In particular, modern satellite-based research methods and palaeoclimatology are used to research the collapse of this empire. In relation to this, Weiss put forward the thesis that massive climate change had a decisive influence on the collapse.

Works (in selection)

with Lauren Ristvet: Micro- and Macro-Contexts of the Tell Leilan Eastern Lower Town Palace Archives. In: Eidem, Jesper (Ed.): The Eastern Lower Town Palace Archives: Yale Tell Leilan Research, Vol. 1. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
with M. Staubwasser: Holocene Climate and Cultural Evolution in Late Prehistoric-Early Historic West Asia. In: ders .: Holocene Climate and Cultural Evolution in Late Prehistoric-Early Historic West Asia : Quaternary Research 3/66, 2006.
with Lauren Ristvet: The Habur Region in the Late Third and Early Second Millennium BC In: Winfried Orthmann (Ed.): The History and Archeology of Syria , Vol. 1. Saarbrücken, 2005.

Web links

Homepage at Yale University

Individual evidence

↑ Harvey Weiss: Beyond the Younger Dryas. Collapse as Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change in Ancient West Asia and the Easterh Mediterranean. In: Garth Bawdon; Richard Martin Reycraft (Ed.): Environmental Disaster and the Archeology of Human Response Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 2000.

personal data
SURNAME	Weiss, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American archaeologist from the Near East
DATE OF BIRTH	1945

[1] Harvey Weiss: Beyond the Younger Dryas. Collapse as Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change in Ancient West Asia and the Easterh Mediterranean. In: Garth Bawdon; Richard Martin Reycraft (Ed.): Environmental Disaster and the Archeology of Human Response Albuquerque: Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 2000.