• Associations and Interactions in Urban Networks of the Roman Near East 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Relational approaches have profoundly changed archaeology and related fields in recent years. This has shifted focus from agents to the interaction between them. Past processes, however, are finished and gone, and the only ...
    • Climate Change in Urban Biographies: Stage, Event, Agent 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      How do archaeologists understand the relationship between climate, climate change, and urban biographies? In this article, I argue that urban biographies should be approached as the life stories they claim to be, with ...
    • The Paradox of Palmyra: An Ancient anomalopolis in the Desert 

      Raja, Rubina; Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Palmyra, the UNESCO world heritage site that tragically made headlines following ISIS’s destruction of several of its key monuments in 2015, was once a thriving city in the heart of the Syrian Desert. Settled from Neolithic ...