Settlement and society : essays dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams /
Saved in:
Other Authors: ,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published:
Los Angeles : [Chicago] :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California ; Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2007.
Series:
Ideas, debates, and perspectives ;
3.
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Call Number: DS56 .S43 2007
Table of Contents:
- •Introduction •Ecology Landscape Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Past, present and future •Archaeological Surveys and Mesopotamian History •KLM to Corona: Using satellite photography toward a new understanding of fifth/fourth millennium BC landscapes in the lower Mesopotamian alluvium •Cycles of Settlement in the Khorramabad Valley in Luristan, Iran •Harappan Geoarchaeology Reconsidered: Holocene Landscapes and Environments of the Indus Plain •Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of the Agrarian State •Frontiers Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium BC •The Lattimore Model and Hatti's Kaska Frontier •Urbanism Ancient Agency: Using Models of Intentionality to Understand the Dawn of Despotism •City and Countryside in Third Millennium Southern Babylonia •The Mesopotamian Urban Experience •The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia •Islamic Archaeology and the "Land behind Baghdad" •The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico •The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat •Trade A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary Dynamics of 'Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia •The Sumerian Takeoff •Technology Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology: A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey •References