Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation
In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C.
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Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation
In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C.
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Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation

Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation

by Mitchell S. Rothman (Editor)
Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation

Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation

by Mitchell S. Rothman (Editor)

Overview

In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781930618039
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 12/01/2001
Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 582
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.22(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsix
List of Tablesxiii
Prefacexv
Dedication: To Robert McCormick Adamsxvii
1The Local and the Regional: An Introduction3
2The Prehistory of Imperialism: The Case of Uruk Period Mesopotamia27
3Calibrated Radiocarbon Age Determinations of Uruk-Related Assemblages85
4Cultural Action in the Uruk World123
5Cultural and Political Networks in the Ancient Near East during the Fourth and Third Millennia B.C.149
6The Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia181
7Syria and the Uruk Expansion233
8Indigenous Social Complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the Organization of Uruk Colonial Contact265
9Centralization Processes in Greater Mesopotamia: Uruk "Expansion" as the Climax of Systemic Interactions among Areas of the Greater Mesopotamian Region307
10The Tigris Piedmont, Eastern Jazira, and Highland Western Iran in the Fourth Millennium B.C.349
11Mesopotamian Intraregional Relations Reflected through Glyptic Evidence in the Late Chalcolithic 1-5 Periods403
12A View of the Plains from the Mountains: Comments on Uruk by an Andeanist445
References477
Index537
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