Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape. Guillermo Algaze

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape



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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Language: English
Page: 248
ISBN: 0226013774, 9780226013770

“Algaze displays an impressive command of recent research in economic geography and an insightful knowledge of strengths and weaknesses of the textual and archaeological dataset. The result is a tight and theoretically explicit model for the precocious rise of southern Mesopotamian urban society which argues strongly for the primacy of trade, transportation technology, and uniquely diverse geographic circumstances. Algaze’s The Uruk World System drove the research agenda for the Uruk expansion; Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization will structure the direction of future field research on the emergence of the world’s earliest urban states.”

(Jason Ur, Harvard University )

“This is an important and valuable distillation of Algaze’s most recent thinking on the development of southern Mesopotamian society. While it is indeed a worthy complement to his earlier work, this wholly original book takes his argument much further, making a number of important theoretical points.”

(T.J. Wilkinson, Durham University )

“Outstanding. . . . This book is the single best treatment available in discussing the complex issues involved in bringing about Mesopotamian civilization, offering a model of approach for anyone interested in the emergence of civilization.” (Choice )

"[This monograph] offers an engaging narrative and a somewhat rosy picture of life in early Sumer, attempting to explain the birth and development of early urbanization and complex social structures. . . . A book that one can recommend to students." (Mark Geller Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ) Guilllermo Algaze is professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, now in its second edition from the University of Chicago Press.

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