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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administrative Agade period already Anatolia apparently archaeological buildings built burials buried cemetery centre changes chapter close complex contained continued copper decorated described difficult earlier earliest Early Dynastic east electrum Euphrates evidence example excavated Figure finds function further graves Gulf head houses identified important increase indicate Iraq Jemdat Nasr king known land late later major materials Mesopotamia metal middle originally palace patterns perhaps phase plain political possible pottery presence probably produced range record region remains represent rivers rooms round route royal ruler seals seems seen settlement shrine similar society sometimes southern statues stone style suggested Sumer Sumerian survey tablets Tell temple Tepe texts third millennium thought tombs town trade types Ubaid unit urban Uruk period usually walls whole
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| Title | Sumer and the Sumerians Sumer and the Sumerians, Harriet E. W. Crawford |
| Author | Harriet E. W. Crawford |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521533384, 9780521533386 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Archaeology |
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