Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions and Their Consequences in the Era of State Formation (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) - Softcover

Mitchell S. Rothman

9780852554609: Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors: Cross-cultural Interactions and Their Consequences in the Era of State Formation (School of American Research Advanced Seminar)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852554605 ISBN 13: 9780852554609

Publisher: James Currey Ltd, 2002

In Old and New World archaeology, the Mesopotamian case has long stood as the model for the evolution of complex societies, providing the conceptual and organizational standard for understanding city and state origins. But new data on Mesopotamia in the late 5th and 4th millennia BC have been accruing with astonishing speed over the last 20 years, opening fresh areas of exploration and debate. In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbours , ten of the foremost field archaeologists working in the area today provide an overview and analysis of these data. The authors radically reassess the chronological framework for the greater Mesopotamian region, assemble basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data to put localpatterns and dynamics into their widest regional context. With lavish illustration and thorough documentation, this volume is destined to become a standard reference work on the state of Mesopotamian archaeology at the beginning of the 21st century. Its significance extends beyond the archaeology of the ancient Near East to the wider fields of anthropology and political science.

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This volume seeks to understand the nature of the expansion and eventual collapse of Uruk influence out of the alluvial plains of southern Mesopotamia into the peripheral regions of Greater Mesopotamia...and attempts to understand how it impacted on com,pruk Mesopotamia & its Neighbors offers readers important new data and compelling interpretations of the era of state formation in Greater Mesopotamia.' - Elizabeth Carter in Science

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