<p>The contributions gathered in this volume are the result of the German-French research project HIGEOMES - "The historical geography of Upper Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC: Interdisciplinary research" (ANR/DFG). The first part, "From Aur to Mari," covers the Sinjar, Khabur and Taurus regions, that is, the north of Upper Mesopotamia. The focus lies on spatial phenomena of political structures in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, b...