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. They radically reassess the chronological framework for the region, assemble the basic data sets on both local and regional levels, and interpret and synthesize these data in order to put local patterns and dynamics into their widest regional context. Their contributions have applications beyond the cultural history of Mesopotamia itself, reaching into the wider fields of anthropology, history, and political science. With its thorough documentation and comprehensive scope, this volume is an indispensable reference on the state of Mesopotamian archaeology at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781930618039
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research 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 Illustrations	ix
	List of Tables	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Dedication: To Robert McCormick Adams	xvii
1	The Local and the Regional: An Introduction	3
2	The Prehistory of Imperialism: The Case of Uruk Period Mesopotamia	27
3	Calibrated Radiocarbon Age Determinations of Uruk-Related Assemblages	85
4	Cultural Action in the Uruk World	123
5	Cultural and Political Networks in the Ancient Near East during the Fourth and Third Millennia B.C.	149
6	The Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia	181
7	Syria and the Uruk Expansion	233
8	Indigenous Social Complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the Organization of Uruk Colonial Contact	265
9	Centralization Processes in Greater Mesopotamia: Uruk "Expansion" as the Climax of Systemic Interactions among Areas of the Greater Mesopotamian Region	307
10	The Tigris Piedmont, Eastern Jazira, and Highland Western Iran in the Fourth Millennium B.C.	349
11	Mesopotamian Intraregional Relations Reflected through Glyptic Evidence in the Late Chalcolithic 1-5 Periods	403
12	A View of the Plains from the Mountains: Comments on Uruk by an Andeanist	445
	References	477
	Index	537