Welcome to the first publication that has sought to understand Early Iron Age warfare from the perspectives of the cultures that lived in northwestern Syria and southeastern Anatolia, including places such as Carchemish and Samal. Traditionally conflict studies of the era have been pursued through the lenses of these polities contemporaries, especially Neo-Assyrian kings. The goal of this publication is to use the available archaeological evidence to establish insights into their own conflicts, which can be used to move toward creating a history of war for the era that encompasses the viewpoints from as many cultures as possible.
Thomas James, Ph.D. (2017), is an archaeologist/military historian that now works as a docent in Berlin, Germany. His main speciality is Early Iron Age warfare in SW Asia, which included writing an article called Battlefield Justice of the God Ashur (2022).
