A Study on the Administration Objects in West Asian Prehistory.

该项目的最终目标是进一步了解西亚农业社会的发展。为了实现这一目标，我们选择和研究了与货物管理相关的物品，如印章、封条、令牌和砝码。该项目的目的是在这些管理对象的基础上重建社会复杂性的过程。该项目始于制作一份从西亚新石器时代和铜石器时代遗址发现的行政物品目录。我去了大英博物馆、伦敦大学考古研究所、拉卡国家博物馆、芝加哥大学东方研究所、伊德利卜国家博物馆、拉塔基亚国家博物馆、宾夕法尼亚大学考古与人类学博物馆、大马士革国家博物馆等拥有相关物品的地方，并对每一件物品进行了绘画和拍照。所有的图纸和照片都被放入一个数据库，每张图纸都被数字化了。2007年，在叙利亚西北部的Tell el-Kerkh出土的所有印章和封条——这个研究项目最基本的对象——都被编目并作为最终报告用英语出版。有关新石器时代人类群体的论文也发表了，这些论文是基于对印章和印章的研究。

The final goal of the project was to further understanding of the development of farming societies in West Asia. To achieve this goal, objects related to the administration of goods, such as seals, sealings, tokens and weights, were chosen and studied. The project aim was to reconstruct the process of social complexity based on these administration objects. The project began with the making of a catalogue of administration objects discovered from Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in West Asia. I went to the British Museum, Archaeological Institute of the University of London, Raqqa National Museum, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Idlib National Museum, Latakia National Museum, University Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Damascus National Museum, etc. which possess the related objects, and I drew and took a photograph of each object. All of the drawings and photographs were put into a database, and each drawing was digitized. In 2007, all of the stamp seals and sealings excavated from Tell el-Kerkh in northwest Syria, the most fundamental objects for this study project, were catalogued and published as a final report in English. Papers, concerning Neolithic human groups based on the study of stamp seals and sealings, were also published.