The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

CONTENTS



List of illustrations ix

List of contributors xv

Chronological framework for fourth millennium southern Mesopotamia xxi

Historical phases and kings of the third millennium BC xxiii

Introduction 1

Harriet Crawford

PART I: THE BACKGROUND 11

1 Physical geography 13
Jennifer R. Pournelle

2 Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems of Sumer 33
Tony J. Wilkinson

3 Sumerian agriculture and land management 55
Magnus Widell

4 The end of prehistory and the Uruk period 68
Guillermo Algaze

5 The Sumerian language 95
Graham Cunningham

6 History and chronology 111
Nicole Brisch

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