From relative chronology to absolute chronology. The second millenium BC in Syria-Palestina

Indice: P. Matthiae - The Destruction of Old Syrian Ebla at the End of Middle Bronze II. New Historical Data.
E. Ascalone - Archaeological Links between Syria and Iran. Stratigraphical Correlation and Regional Connections.
L. Badre - The Handmade Burnished Ware and the Contemporary Local Pottery from Tell Kazel. .
F. Baffi - Le style "de Mitanni" dans la glyptique syrienne du Bronze Moyen.
D. Beyer - Quelques réflexions sur les aspects chronologiques de la glyptique du Moyen Euphrate au IIe millénaire av. J.-C.
M. Bietak - Towards a Middle Bronze Age Chronology.
D. Collon - Relations between Syria and Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC - The Evidence of the Seals.
R. Dittmann - A Glimpse at the History of Savi Höyük I.
R. Dolce - Du Bronze Ancien IVB au Bronze Moyen à Ebla - Limites et problèmes pour une définition chronologique relative pendant la période de la ville protosyrienne récente .
B. Einwag - Early Second Millennium Pottery of the Euphrates Region.
A. Enea - The Weather God in the Ugaritic Glyptic during the Late Bronze Age and the Old Syrian Tradition.
U. Finkbeiner - A Room Inventory of Early Bronze IV from Emar.
M. Lebeau - Le Projet ARCANE (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East.
N. Marchetti - Chronology and Stratification of Middle Bronze Age Clay Figurines in Syria and Northern Palestine.
J.-C. Margueron - Mari et la chronologie. Acquisitions récentes et problèmes. .
S. Mazzoni - The End of the Bronze Age: A Syrian Perspective.
D. Meijer - The Area of the Balikh between ca. 2500 and 1700 BC.
E. Merluzzi - Ground Stone Artifacts as Chronological Markers. Inter-Assemblage Variability of Syro-Palestinian Bronze Age Basalt Industry.
J.-W. Meyer - The Anthropomorphic Terracotta Figurines from Tell Chuera and Halawa: Their Chronology and Their Meanings.
L. Nigro - Towards a Unified Chronology of Syria and Palestine: The Beginning of the Middle Bronze Age.
J. Oates - Problems in Chronology of the Second Millennium BC, with Particular Reference to the Transition between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages and the Dating of the Khabur and Nuzi Ware.
A. Otto - Archaeological Hints for a New Order of the Šakkanakku of Mari.
L. Peyronel - Chronological Aspects of Cultural Interrelations between Syria and the Persian Gulf during the Late Third and Second Millennium BC.
F. Pinnock - Middle Bronze Ceramic Horizon at Ebla. Typology and Chronology.
P. E. Pruss - Comb-Incised Pottery in Syria and Mesopotamia and Its Relevance for Chronology.
G. Rossoni - Production d'armes dans la Syrie interieure au Bronze recent: deux exemples de haches en bronze de Ebla.
G. Schwartz - The Early-Middle Bronze Transition: Evidence from Umm el-Marra and Western Syria.
J. Tubb - The Duckbill Axe as a Chronological and Cultural Indicator.

Paolo Matthiae (Roma, 9 gennaio 1940) è un archeologo, scrittore e orientalista italiano.

Attualmente è professore di archeologia e storia dell'arte del Vicino Oriente presso la Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza". È direttore della spedizione italiana ad Ebla, della quale è considerato lo scopritore, fin dal 1963 ed ha lavorato negli scavi di Tell Afis e Tell Fray. Ha pubblicato numerosi libri ed articoli relativi ad Ebla e alla storia dell'arte della Mesopotamia e della Siria in genere; in essi, partendo dall'esperienza condotta sul campo, ha intrapreso una revisione critica del ruolo storico della Siria nel quadro delle civiltà del Vicino Oriente.
È membro di varie istituzioni, tra le quali l'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres e il Deutsches Archaologisches Institut; è laureato honoris causa alla Università Autonoma di Madrid.