Dr. Diederik Meijer
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Dr. D.J.W. Meijer studied Semitic Languages and Archaeology of the Near East at the University of Amsterdam and the University of London. His fieldwork took and takes place (since 1969) in Turkey and Syria. He is especially interested in emergent urbanism and state-formation processes in the Ancient Near East (from ca. 4000 BC onward), their socio-economic correlates such as the growth of trade, as well as in the iconography of cylinder seals. A book is envisaged about the feasibility of modelling the Mesopotamian and Syrian city-states on those of early Renaissance Italy. Currently he is working, with Dr. Gerrit van der Kooij and several assistant researchers, on an archaeological project financed by NWO and attempting to determine the variability of human response to fluctuating environmental factors in marginal areas in Palestine and Syria. His other interests include the philosophy of science and its application in archaeology.
Research projects:
2010
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2010)
Seal Cutters and Palaces: a Forced Relationship? In Matthiae, P., Pinnock, F., Nigro, L., Marchetti, N. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (pp. 849-862). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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2009
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Meijer, D.J.W. & Demarée, R.J. & Haring, B.J.J. (Eds.) (2009)
Handel in het Oude Nabije oosten. Een bundel artikelen over het verschijnsel Handel in het Oude Nabije Oosten. Leiden/Leuven: Ex Oriente Lux & Uitgeverij Peeters.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2009)
Henri Frankfort and the Development of Dutch Archaeology in the Near East. In Rogge, S. (Ed.) Zypern und der Vordere Orient im 19. Jahrhundert (pp. 189-198). Münster: Waxmann.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2009)
Salankahiya, Tall. In Stol, M. & et al., (Eds.) Reallexikon der AsyriologieBerlin: de Gruyter.
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2008
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2008)
Crisis = Collapse? Collapse of What? In Kuzucuoglu, C. & Marro, C. (Eds.) Sociétés humaines et changement climatique à la fin du troisième millénaire: une crise a-t-elle eu lieu en haute mésopotamie? (pp. 39-43). Paris: De Boccard.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2008)
Punctuating Archaeological Transitions. In Kühne, H., Czichon, R.M., Kreppner, F.J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (pp. 217-224). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2008)
Seeing and Understanding. In Bonatz, D., Czichon, R.M., Kreppner, F.J., Kühne, H. (Eds.) Fundstellen. Gesammelte Schriften....Hartmut Kühne (pp. 327-334). Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2008)
The Area of the Balikh between ca. 2500 and 1700 BC. In Matthiae, P. & Pinnock, F. (Eds.) From Relative Chronology to Absolute Chronology: The Second Millennium BC in Syria-Palestine Vol. 117. Proceedings (pp. 313-326). Roma: Bardi Editore.
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2007
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2007)
A Late Akkadian Cylinder Seal from Tell Hammam al-Turkman. In Faist, B., Dittmann, R., Essen, M., van (Eds.) Vorderasiatische Beiträge für Uwe Finkbeiner Vol. 37. Baghdader Mitteilungen (pp. 335-341). Berlin
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2006
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2006)
Polanyi, Markets and Ancient Mesopotamia and Syria. In Perna, M. (Ed.) Fiscality in Mycenaean and Near Eastern Archives Vol. 3 (pp. 123-131). Paris: De Boccard.
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Meijer, D.J.W. (2006)
Some Thoughts on Symbolism in Architecture. In Butterlin, P., Lebeau, M., Monchambert, J. (Ed.) Les espaces syro-mésopotamiens. Volume d'hommage offert à Jean-Claude Margueron Vol. XVII. Subartu (pp. 529-532). Turnhout: Brepols.
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2004
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Maartense, S. & Bemelman, W.A. & Gerritsen van der Hoop, A. & Meijer, D.J.W. & Gouma, D.J. (2004)
Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS): a report of 150 procedures. Surg Endosc, 18, pp. 379-401.
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