Une Archeologie des Peuples du Proche-Orient. Tome I: Des premiers villageois aux peuples des cites-Etats (Xe-IIIe millenaire av. J.-C.). Tome II: Des hommes des Palais aux sujets de premiers empires (IIe-Ier millenaire av. J.-C.). TWO VOLUMES.

A specialist in ancient Mesopotamia, Jean-Louis Huot is the author of more than a hundred books and scientific articles. He trained many archaeologists who became active in the fields of the Near East. He directed the French Archaeological Delegation in Iraq from 1977 to 1991, then the French Institute of Archeology of the Near East from 1999 to 2003. In these volumes, Huot offers a reading of the ancient East based on archaeological documentation from numerous sites, from the shores of the Mediterranean to the shores of the Indus and the gorges of Greater Caucasus to the Persian Gulf and the torrent of Egypt. The size of the area covered by his study is remarkable in this regard and should be hailed as the true first of its kind.