Is there any centralized database that would list and preferably also shown on a map all Eurasian and African archaeological sites from years 5000 - 1500 BCE? I would need to see, whether the appearance of archaeological sites correlates with the appearance of ancient place names.
Our team studied the geographic distribution of 15 ancient name sets to see, where they appear as place names and personal names. We found out that most of the ancient name sets seem to have their urheimat in India (e.g. Phoenician, Hyksos, Mitanni, Berber, Sea Peoples and Ethiopian) or have a very strong connection with India. The second highest density of ancient names was found in the river valleys of Volta and Niger in Africa, with relatively high density also along Danube and at the western parts of Eufrat & Tigris.
A short summary of the study is available here:
https://puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/pasi-malmi/the-migration-of-people-between-indus-valley-and-europe-5000-30-bce/
and the full study is found in here :
Preprint Titan Atlas and the Roots of the Mediterranean Cultures
I suggest you the following books:
Clark, Peter (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
MacEvedy, Colin. The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.
MacEvedy, Colin. Cities of the Classical World An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
Maisels, Charles Keith Maisels. Early Civilizations of the Old World. The formative histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China. London-New York: Routledge, 2005.
Woolf, Greg. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Yoffee, Norman. Myths of the Archaic State Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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