The ORIGINS project (2023-2026) is analyzing the determinants and impact of the state's institutional capacity to provide public goods, enforce contracts, and properly protect property rights taking as study case Bronze Age Mesopotamia. This page reports all activities and output.

Archaeologists, Assyriologists, economists, historians, legal scholars and political scientists from the UNIMORE, University of Barcelona, University of Bologna, University of Cambridge and University of Minnesota have participated in the project.