Professor Paul E. Zimansky
Research Interests:
Paul Zimansky is an archaeologist and historian specializing in ancient Near Eastern complex societies of the second and first millennia B.C. He has excavated at Bastam (Iran), Nippur (Iraq), 'Ain Dara (Syria), Mashkan-shapir (Iraq), Tell Hamida (Iraq), and, most recently, Ayanis (Turkey). His primary research focus is on the how imperial governments and economies affect daily life in subject populations, particularly in urban settings. Much of his work has been devoted to the ancient Anatolian state of Urartu (9th-7th centuries B.C.), on which he has published two books: Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State (Chicago: Oriental Institute Press, 1985) and Ancient Ararat: A Handbook of Urartian Studies (Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1998). His familiarity with cuneiform documentary sources in Akkadian, Hittite and Urartian have enabled him to blend archaeological and textual sources in his research, and to develop a secondary specialty in the archaeology of ancient writing.
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