ABSTRACT
A wide multidisciplinary project of archaeometric analyses on material assemblages (pottery and clay objects, base and precious metals, stone and bone items) and bioarchaeological samples dating from the Early Bronze Age IVA (ca. 2400–2300 B.c.) was planned as a part of the Ebla Chora Project (ECP), in order to investigate primary production, manufacture processes, technological degree of specialization, and intersections between crafts and exchange systems at local and interregional levels. In particular, the pottery and architectural components analyses and the bioarchaeological researches have focused on the relationships between the urban town and its environment and the strategies of procurement, exploitation, and consumption of natural resources and raw materials in the region of Ebla, whereas precious and base metals have been studied in order to identify alloys, metalworking techniques, and operational processes that can be usefully compared with information coming from the cuneiform texts of Royal Palace G.
