The project deals with the importance of resources for the socio-political and cultural development of Syrian palace systems during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (2000–1200 BC). Research has so far defined Syrian palace systems primarily as economically functioning households, that is as 'palace economies' or 'oikoi'. In this project, it will be explored how these states also used resources to construct power, political ideology, cultural identity and social integration, as well as to consolidate interregional communication and internal and external networks.
