Amanda Podany's 2022 social history of the ancient Near East — covering 3500–500 BC — focusing on ordinary people (weavers, scribes, merchants, farmers) rather than kings, using cuneiform archive evidence.
Provides the social history of ancient Mesopotamia from below — demonstrating that cuneiform archives preserve detailed evidence of ordinary ancient lives (women weavers' complaints to supervisors, schoolboys' tablet exercises, merchants' commercial disputes) that allows genuinely human ancient history.
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