Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society /
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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE" --
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x, 389 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780521764438
Pre-Sargonid temples in the Diyala region /
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Part of the illustrative material is folded.
"This volume is one of a group planned to present as a whole the work of the Oriental institute's Iraq expedition in the Diyala region." :
xvii, 320 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations, maps, plans, tables, diagrams. ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references.
Ancient Mesopotamia : portrait of a dead civilization /
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Third impression, 1968.
Appendix (pages 335-352) : Mesopotamian chronology of the historical period, by J.A. Brinkman. :
ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded in pocket), portraits ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-387)and index.