Sumer and the SumeriansMesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. In this fully revised and expanded edition of her classic text, Sumer and the Sumerians, Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region over a period of two millennia, from 3800 to 2000 BC. Drawing on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological sources, she describes the physical environment and discusses architecture, trade and industry, the development of writing, and changes in social and political structures. |
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User Review - millsge - LibraryThingThe book did not hold my attention & I stopped reading after approx. 50 pages. It seems that it is not a book for a lay-person who wants to know the history and world outlook of the Sumerians. It ... Read full review
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Contents
History chronology and social organisation | 16 |
Patterns of settlement and agriculture | 37 |
Town planning and temple architecture | 60 |
Public buildings and private housing | 89 |
Upper Mesopotamia | 115 |
Life death and the meaning of the universe | 135 |
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Abu Salabikh administrative Agade period agriculture altar Anatolia apparently archaeological architecture artefacts bowls Brak bricks burials buried centre clay complex copper courtyard cylinder seals decorated Diyala valley Eanna earlier earliest Early Dynastic period elaborate Eridu Euphrates evidence example excavated Figure function graves Gulf Habuba Hamrin houses identified iFig important Iraq irrigation Jebel Khafaje kilns king Kish Lagash land lapis large numbers major materials Mesopotamia metal mudbrick Naram-Sin Nippur palace perhaps political possible Postgate pottery presence probably produced Puabi region rooms route ruler Sargon seems seen settlement patterns shrine Shulgi so-called society southern plain statues stele stone style suggested Sumer Sumerian plain survey Susa Syria tablets Tell Asmar Tell Brak temple Tepe Gawra texts third millennium Tigris tombs town trade types Ubaid period Ur III period Ur-Nammu urban Uruk period walls Woolley ziggurat
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| Title | Sumer and the Sumerians |
| Author | Harriet Crawford |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0521533384, 9780521533386 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General Social Science / Archaeology |
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