Review of Weiss H. 2012 (ed.), Seven Generations Since the Fall of Akkad. Studia Chaburensia 3, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag

The book is concerned with the Akkadian collapse of the Khabur plains in the last centuries of the third millennium BCE. The contributions touch upon several topics, including, quantitative analysis of settlement distribution, administration, household archaeology, glyptic, ceramics, archaeobotany and food production. The evidence belongs to a large sample of sites, among which Tell Arbid, Tell Barri, Tell Brak, Hamoukar, Tell Leilan, Tell Mohammed Diyab and Tell Mozan. In evaluating the book, the author provides some further insights on the evidence provided there, which is extremely valuable for the reconstruction of urbanization in early upper Mesopotamia.