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“Jebel Aruda” is a category for books that explore the archaeology, history, and imaginative re-creations of the late fourth-millennium BCE Near East, taking its name from the Uruk-period settlement on the Euphrates that stood at the frontier of early Mesopotamian expansion. Titles in this category include excavation reports, accessible syntheses, and narrative or historical fiction that illuminate the rise of the first cities, temple economies, long-distance trade networks, and daily life in riverine colonies and cultural borderlands from Mesopotamia into Syria and Anatolia. Covering material culture (from architecture to cylinder seals), landscape and exchange, and the dynamics of growth and withdrawal during the Uruk expansion, “Jebel Aruda” gathers works that reveal how early urban worlds formed, interacted, and left enduring traces in the archaeological record.

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