The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
HISTORY OF RESEARCH Near Eastern settlement pattern studies originated with the Sumerologist Thorkild Jacobsen, who developed an ...
Patterns of Settlement in Sumer and Akkad Figure 7.2 Surveys and site density in Sumer, Akkad, and adjacent regions. Land over 1 ...
— Jason Ur — uncertain, because fourth millennium occupations are deeply buried beneath later settlement. Nippur, for example, i ...
that few stratigraphic excavations through the fourth millennium exist, and none were undertaken using modern methods of ceramic ...
time in Mesopotamian history, the early third millennium demonstrates the value of archaeological survey; at this critical momen ...
found. This pattern of extreme nucleation suggests that the age of competitive small polities (“city-states,” see below) had beg ...
Jason Ur other associated settlements. The polity centered on Kish in northern Akkad had, at one point, enough political control ...
known as the Iturungal, would be particularly important later in the third millennium (Steinkeller 2001 ). The phase of small in ...
Jason Ur Figure 7.6 The late third/early second millennium settlement in Sumer (based on Adams 1981: table 14; Wright 1981; Stei ...
large-scale, complex irrigation practices were a derivative of the prior development of urban and state organization, rather tha ...
Jason Ur Southern Mesopotamia witnessed dramatic shifts in settlement, in some cases in divergent directions depending on the re ...
Ur grew slightly to 60 ha, and was paired with another 45 ha site at EP- 34. The region contained fifty-eight total settlements, ...
Jason Ur Figure 7.8 Later second millennium BC (Kassite) settlement, including Adams’ proposed watercourses (based on Adams 1981 ...
— Patterns of Settlement in Sumer and Akkad — 4500 4000 3500 Approximate Years BC 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 Early Uruk Late Akkad ...
Jason Ur however, the total area of sites was expanding. Site area can be used as a proxy for population, although not without s ...
The settlement trajectory in surrounding regions parallels that of central Sumer, but with some significant deviations. Neither ...
western Euphrates and even the Tigris; the former major Euphrates branch upon which it sat was now a minor channel that was arti ...
al Hamdani, A. 2008. Protecting and Recording our Archaeological Heritage in Southern Iraq. Near Eastern Archaeology 71 : 221 – ...
Keith, K. 2003. The Spatial Patterns of Everyday Life in Old Babylonian Neighborhoods. In The Social Construction of Ancient Cit ...
—— 2007. The Mesopotamian Urban Experience. In Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams, ed. E. C. Sto ...
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