Sumer and the SumeriansMesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region over a period of two millennia (from 3800 to 2000 BC) in this fully revised and expanded edition of her classic text. Drawing on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological sources, she describes the physical environment and covers architecture, trade and industry, the development of writing, and changes in social and political structures. First Edition Hb (1991): 0-521-38175-4 First Edition Pb (1991): 0-521-38850-3 |
Contents
History chronology and social organisation | 16 |
Patterns of settlement and agriculture | 37 |
Town planning and temple architecture | 60 |
Public buildings and private housing | 89 |
Upper Mesopotamia | 115 |
Life death and the meaning of the universe | 135 |
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Abu Salabikh administrative Agade period agriculture altar Anatolia apparently archaeological architecture artefacts bowls bricks burials buried centre clay copper courtyard cylinder seals decorated Delougaz Diyala valley Eanna earlier earliest Early Dynastic period east elaborate Eridu Euphrates evidence example excavated Figure function graves Gulf Habuba Hamrin houses identified important Iraq irrigation Jebel Khafaje kilns king Kish Lagash land lapis large numbers later major materials Mesopotamia metal Moorey Naram-Sin Nippur palace perhaps political possible Postgate pottery presence probably produced Puabi region rivers rooms route Royal Cemetery ruler Sargon seems seen settlement patterns shrine Shulgi so-called society southern plain statues stele stone style suggested Sumer Sumerian plain survey Susa Syria tablets Tell Asmar Tell Brak temple Tepe Gawra third millennium Tigris tombs town trade types Ubaid period Ur III period Ur-Nammu urban Uruk period walls Woolley ziggurat