The Archaeology of Political Spaces: The Upper Mesopotamian Piedmont in the Second Millennium BCE

by Dominik Bonatz (Editor)

Overview

This 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 2^nd 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110265958
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	03/31/2014
Series:	Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner Studien der Alten Welt , #12
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Dominik Bonatz, Freie Universityät Berlin, Germany.

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of excellent essays, copiously illustrated, will be of interest to all students of Syro-Mesopotamia in the second millennium BCE."
Gary Beckman in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 2017; 112 (6), pp. 326ff

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