Memoirs

Memoirs

Author: Field Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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Empirische Dimension Altorientalischer Forschungen

Empirische Dimension Altorientalischer Forschungen

Author: Gebhard J. Selz

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 3643500351

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This volume's 23 contributions from senior and younger researchers working with the Ancient Near Eastern heritage are based on the hypothesis of a general empiric attitude of Ancient Mesopotamian scholarship. The articles try to elucidate these underlying principles, making use of various sorts of modern theories and methods. The book covers a broader range of topics: astronomy, politics, agriculture and irrigation, linguistics, architecture, medicine and others.


Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries

Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries

Author: Peter Roger Stuart Moorey

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9781575060422

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This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.


Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia

Author: Susan Pollock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-05-20

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521575683

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Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.