The Sumerian world
Physical geography / Jennifer Pournelle -- Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems of sumer / Tony J Wilkinson -- Sumerian agriculture and land management / Magnus Widell -- The end of prehistory and the Uruk period / Guillermo Algaze -- The Sumerian language / Graham Cunningham -- History and c...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Series/Journal: | The Routledge worlds
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sumer
/ Archaeology
/ History 3000 BC-2000 BC
B Sumer / History 3000 BC-2000 BC |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Sumerians B Iraq Civilization To 634 B Iraq Civilization To 634 |
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| Summary: | Physical geography / Jennifer Pournelle -- Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems of sumer / Tony J Wilkinson -- Sumerian agriculture and land management / Magnus Widell -- The end of prehistory and the Uruk period / Guillermo Algaze -- The Sumerian language / Graham Cunningham -- History and chronology / Nicole Brisch -- Patterns of settlement in Sumer and Akkad / Jason Ur -- The organisation of a Sumerian town : the physical remains of ancient social systems / Elizabeth C. Stone -- Public buildings, palaces and temples / Marlies Heinz -- Kings and queens : representation and reality / Claudia E. Suter -- Sacred marriage / Kathleen McCaffrey -- In the service of the gods : the ministering clergy / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly and the first law code / Marc Van de Mieroop -- Administrators and scholars : the first scribes and their ethos / Jon Taylor -- Calendars and counting / Tonia Sharlach -- Seals and sealings in the Sumerian world / Holly Pittman Archaeology of the Sumerian home : reconstructing Sumerian daily life / Paul Collins -- Women and agency : a survey from late Uruk to the end of Ur III / Julia M. Ascher-Greve -- A note on Sumerian fashion / Lamia al Gailani -- Sumerian industries and their makers : crafting textiles / Rita P. Wright -- Death and burial / Helga Vogel -- Sumerian mythology / Benjamin R. Foster -- Trade in the Sumerian world / Harriet Crawford -- North Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC / Augusta McMahon -- Cultural developments in western Syria and the Middle Euphrates Valley during the Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia / Christoph Bachhuber -- The kindgom of Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron -- Ebla / Frances Pinnock -- Iran and its neighbours / C.C.Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The Sumerians and the Gulf / Robert Carter -- Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between / Christopher P. Thornton -- Egypt and Mesopotamia / Alice Stevenson -- The Mesopotamian marshlands, a personal recollection / Azzam Alwash |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Physical Description: | XXIV, 659 S., Ill., graph. Darst., Kt., 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415569672 |