Just published:
Baker, H. D. 2022. “The Later Phases of Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism: Babylonia in the Second and First Millennia BC.” Journal of Archaeological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-022-09174-8
Reconstructing Ancient Babylon
Just Published:
Baker, H. D. 2022. “Reconstructing Ancient Babylon: Myth and Reality.” Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal 14: 15–27.
Babylon
Just published:
Baker, H. D. 2021. “Babylon.” Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies, edited by Christopher R. Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021-11-23. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0291. (peer-reviewed)
Babylonian Houses and Housing
In Episode 23 of the podcast “Thin End of the Wedge”, I talk with Jon Taylor about Babylonian houses and housing.
“Many of us have spent a lot of time at home this year. What would that have been like in ancient Babylon? Heather talks about housing in the first millennium BC. What were houses like, who lived in them, and how did they use them? She discusses what houses meant to Babylonians, and how they were split and reconstituted by the family.”
Publications
Just published:
Baker, H.D. 2020. “Management of Resources in Mesopotamia: the View from the First Millennium BC.” In J. Mynářová and S. Alivernini (eds), Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Management of Resources and Taxation (Third – Second Millennium BC). Prague: Charles University, pp. 445–456.
Talks
Reconstructing Ancient Babylon: Myth and Reality (Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Annual Symposium, theme “Babylon: Perceptions Ancient and Modern,” Toronto, 5 October 2019).
Talks
City, Cult, and Kingship in First Millennium BC Babylonia (keynote lecture, 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris, 8–12 July 2019)
Teaching
Assyria and Babylonia in the First Millennium BC (course taught at Charles University, Prague, 13–16 May 2019)
Talks
Management of Resources in Mesopotamia: the View from the First Millennium BC (workshop on “Management of Resources and Taxation,” Prague, 6–7 May 2019).
Talks
Minorities in Assyria: Investigating Social Identities Using the PNA Dataset (workshop on “Minorities in Mesopotamia,” Finnish Institute for the Middle East, Beirut, 8–9 April 2019).