The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

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PART VI THE ENDS OF THE SUMERIAN WORLD
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CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE IRAN AND ITS NEIGHBORS
 C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky T he emergence of Mesopotamian civilization, contrary to t ...

In Mesopotamia, the Ubaid Culture of the mid-fifth to late fourth millennium experiences a substantial cultural expansion extend ...

contemporaneous burial of 2 , 000 individuals. It is equally plausible that this destruc- tive evidence was brought upon the Sus ...

peripheries. “Where trade flows, its ramifications in the form of increasing social complexity and urbanism follow” (p. 100 ). 2 ...

Far more preferable, and consistent with the evidence, are the views of Nick Kardulias ( 2007 ) and Gil Stein ( 1999 ). Kardulia ...

THE PROTO-ELAMITES AND THEIR EXPANSION In the early years of the twentieth century more than 1 , 600 tablets with distinctive si ...

Sofalin there is continuity in the use of texts, beveled-rim bowls, standardized units, sealings, and cylinder seals from Late U ...

recorded, will have been secondary to primary agricultural activities in the respective settlements.” 5. “Material remains and t ...

Mesopotamia is referred to as the ‘lowlands” in contrast to the “highlands” of the Iranian Plateau, both have a considerable div ...

treatment of Elam see D. Potts 1999 ). Recently, Abbas Alizadeh ( 2006 , 2010 ) has offered an insightful model for the emergenc ...

SUMER AND ELAM IN THE TEXTS Textual knowledge is assymetrical; meaning that the texts of the third millennium come exclusively f ...

Eannatum 2470 Conquered Elam: “Elam in her mountain was thrown down.” Enetarzi 2400 / 2370 Elamites plunder the city of Lagash a ...

Ur III period, it was Puzur-Inshushinak whose conquests within the Iranian highlands consolidated an Elamite confederation and a ...

at Konar Sandal recovered dozens of illicitly excavated decorated chlorite bowls, monumental architecture, including evidence fo ...

The Shimashkians who do not consecrate nugigand lukurpriestesses in the place of the gods. Whose population is as numerous as gr ...

–– C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky –– Poliochni Tro y Athens Istanbul Ankara Alaca Höyük Diyarbakir Acemhöyük Kültepe Ebla Tell Brak Mosu ...

brought about this late third millennium interaction remain elusive. However, the texts, supported by the archaeological record ...