Harvey Weiss
Education: Ph.D. 1976, University of Pennsylvania.

Yale University: Professor, Yale University, Anthropology, Near East Language and Civilization, and Environmental Studies

Research: Mesopotamia, early agriculture, cities and empires; Holocene paleoclimatology and environmental change. Director, Tell Leilan Project, Syria, 1978- present.

Recent Publications:

2003 - Ninevite 5 Periods and Processes in E. Rova and H. Weiss, eds., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization. Brepols. Subartu IX. Pp. 593-625.

2002 - Refining the Contours of History at Tell Leilan (with 6 others) Annales Archéologiques Arabes Syriennes.

2001 - What Drives Societal Collapse? (with Raymond Bradley) Science 291 (26 January): 609-610.

2000 - Beyond the Younger Dryas in G. Bawden and R. Reycraft, eds., Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response. Albuquerque: U New Mexico. Pp. 75-99.

Email: harvey.weiss@yale.edu