Catherine Marro (dir.), After the Ubaid. Interpreting changes from the Caucasus to Mesopotamia at the dawn of urban civilization (4500-3500BC). Papers from The Post-Ubaid Horizon in the Fertile Crescent and Beyond, International Workshop held at Fosseuse, 29th June-1st July 2009, Istanbul, Paris, IFEA – De Boccard 2012 ISBN 9-782362-450075 The time period between the end of the Ubaid and the beginning of the Uruk expansion is one of the least known, yet most important eras in the ancient history of the Middle East. This era, which is often referred to as the « Post-Ubaid » period, is marked by major structural changes such as the rise of social hierarchies, technological innovations and economic reorganisation, which eventually led to the emergence of

  Catherine Abadie-Reynal et Rıfat Ergeç (eds.), Zeugma I – Fouilles de l’habitat (1) : La mosaïque de Pasiphae, Varia Anatolica XXVI, Istanbul, Paris, IFEA – De Boccard, 2012 342p., 1 plan hors texte ISBN 978-2-36245-004-4 Cette publication présente un ensemble de maisons fouillées juste avant que le site de Zeugma ne soit immergé par un lac de barrage sur l’Euphrate. Il s’agit de maisons luxueuses comme le montre le matériel mis au jour. Au-delà de cette découverte, inattendue dans les confins de l’Empire romain, la fouille de ces maisons permet de suivre leur évolution jusqu’au milieu du IIIe s., quand elles sont détruites par une attaque sassanide. On peut observer le processus très lent qui tend à rapprocher ces

Gilles Authier et Katharina Haude (Eds.) Ergativity, Valency and Voice (EALT 48), Berlin, Mouton De Gruyter 2012, viii, 387 p. This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.