Hama, City in the Upper Orontes Valley: Chronology and Material Culture

Georges Mouamar is an associate researcher at the Archéorient laboratory - UMR 5133 (CNRS), Lyon-France. He obtained his PhD in Near Eastern Archaeology at University of Lyon 2, with a thesis focused on the Early Bronze IV ceramic production in Western Syria. He was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Archaeology of the University of Damascus between 2006 and 2007. He is a member of many international projects and he previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lyon 2 and at the at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

He has conducted archaeological research in Syria since 2001and has co-directed (between 2002 and 2011) the excavations of several sites of great importance for the knowledge of the Levant during the 3rd millennium BC (Tell Shʻaīrat, Tell Al-Ṣūr and Tell Sianu). He also participated in several international archaeological missions - Mishrifeh-Qatna, and Tell Hamoukar, and others. He has participated as a pottery specialist in excavations in Syria and Iraq (Tell Al-Nasriyah, Tell Al-Rawda, survey of the Arid Margins of Northern Syria, Tell Amyan).

His research focuses on the 3^rd millennium BC in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria, ceramic technology at the dawn of the first cities in the northern Levant, the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean and the emergence of complex societies, and the  determination of the origin of archaeological ceramics in the laboratory "Archaeometry".

He has authored more than 15 published works and he has attended numerous national and international congresses on Near Eastern Archaeology, as well as invited seminars and lectures.