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Author: Stefano Anastasio
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bibliographical repertory of studies, surveys and excavation reports devoted to Upper Mesopotamia. Analytical indices (topics, themes, items, periods). A concise description of 192 archaeological excavations in Syria, Turkey & Iraq, with their bibliography, location & chronological sequence.
Author: Dominik Bonatz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 3110266407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, consisting of 12 contributions, amalgamates the most recent results from archaeological research in the Upper Mesopotamian piedmont. Under the growing influence of expanding territorial states which had become established during the 2nd millennium BC, this region experienced a substantial change in social and political life during that time. The discussion is centered around settlement shapes, developments in the material culture, as well as written documents that attest to this change. In summary, this book emphasizes the significant roll of archaeological research in the reconstruction of models concerning the formation and transformation of political space in the ancient world.
Author: Glenn M. Schwartz
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 193877096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC. Prior studies of early Near Eastern urban societies generally focused on the cities and elites, neglecting the rural component of urbanization. This research represents part of a move to rectify that imbalance. Reports on the architecture, pottery, animal bones, plant remains, and other varieties of artifacts and ecofacts enhance our understanding of the role of villages in the formation of urban societies, the economic relationship between small rural sites and urban centers, and status and economic differentiation in villages. Among the significant results are the extensive exposure of a large segment of the village area, revealing details of spatial and social organization and household economics. The predominance of large-scale grain storage and processing leads to questions of staple finance, economic relations with pastoralists, and connections to developing urban centers.
Author: Roger Matthews
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1135134537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its origins in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the original site of many of the major developments in human history, such as farming, the rise of urban literate societies and the first great empires of Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria. Dr. Matthews places the discipline within its historical and social context, and explains how archaeologists conduct their research through excavation, survey and other methods. In four fundamental chapters, he uses illustrated case-studies to show how archaeologists have approached central themes such as: * the shift from hunting to farming * complex societies * empires and imperialism * everyday life. This will be both an ideal introductory work and useful as background reading on a wide range of courses.
Author: Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503540016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe times between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in Mesopotamia have for a long time been interpreted as a period of stagnation. This volume is part of an emerging discourse that challenges such assumptions. Focussing upon the northern parts of ancient Western Asia, where most recent research has concentrated, an international group of researchers demonstrates that Upper Mesopotamia underwent complex historical changes that we just begin to grasp fully. The Late Neolithic was a critical phase of the history of the ancient Middle East. Authors investigate settlement patterns, practices of painting pottery, distributions of various raw materials, the role of craft industries, the emergence of seals and other issues from a variety of theoretical and practical questions. The book is a must-have for prehistorians working in the Near East, and a rich source of information for archaeologists working in other parts of the world. Olivier Nieuwenhuyse is a Research Fellow at Leiden University and at the DAI-Berlin. His research focuses on reconstructions of landscape and prehistoric settlement and the meanings of material culture. Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin and Binghamton University, New York. His research focuses on critical assessments of ancient Western Asian prehistory and historical periods. Peter Akkermans is professor at Leiden University. He is the director of the excavatons at Tell Sabi Abyad and had published widely on the prehistory of the ancient Near East.
Author: Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9783944178011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stefano Anastasio
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccompanying CD-ROM ... "allows multiple queries and comprises an updated bibliography on Upper Mesopotamia."--Page 4 of cover. "APUM interactive database." -- label on disc.
Author: Marco Iamoni
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783447106900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the result of a workshop that was organised by Salam Al-Quntar and the editor of the present proceedings on June 11, 2014 during the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Basel, Switzerland. The workshop?s aim was to stimulate colleagues studying the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in Mesopotamia to present papers investigating the development of human societies during the 6th?4th millennia BC in Upper Mesopotamia. Of specific interest was the analysis of the ?socio-economic complexity? phenomenon. The ten contributions that compose the volume propose conclusions that go beyond such rigid subdivisions. Many of them present the most recent data from key research projects currently ongoing in Upper Mesopotamia. Therefore this volume offers an updated view of the crucial changes that characterised the region throughout the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.
Author: Lynn Rainville
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 258
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLynn Rainville's revised thesis uses micro-debris analyis' to investigate aspects of domestic life in three Early Bronze Age sites, two urban and one rural, in southeastern Turkey.
Author: Percy Stuart Peache Handcock
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 522
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