I put medicine first, not because of any personal predilections, but because during my short stay in Mesopotamia the surgical cases were " snowed under " by cases of sickness. Not only so, but most surgical cases presented evidence sooner or later of non-surgical disease. It may be well to look first in a general way at the principal causes of this heavy incidence of sickness and disease.

The Writing in Early Mesopotamia (WEM) project endeavors to provide a comprehensive description of how the technology of cuneiform writing represented language. The project will investigate early cuneiform writing from the perspective of both language — how sound and meaning are systematically expressed diachronically and synchronically — and semiotics — the graphic organization and history of ...

Today archaeologists are increasingly seeking more objective methods for analyzing archaeological remains to obtain the most reliable results possible. To achieve this goal, developed in other disciplines being introduced gradually into archaeology and their effectiveness is tested; particularly case analysis of lithic artifacts. One such method, borrowed from evolutionary biology that has beco...