Artefacts of complexity : tracking the Uruk in the Near East / edited by J.N. Postgate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Postgate, J. N.

Series:

Iraq archaeological reports ; 5.

Iraq archaeological reports ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Erech (Extinct city)--Congresses.

Erech (Extinct city).

Iraq--Antiquities--Congresses.

Iraq.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2002.

Summary:

This volume includes 11 contributions from participants at the conference of the same name held in Manchester in November 1998. They cover the geographical span of the Uruk phenomenon, with emphasis on the material evidence as provided by the artefacts. The volume thus presents a readable and up to date summary of many of the most important sites and issues relating to this crucial formative period at the threshold of the historical civilizations of the ancient Near East.

Contents:

Uruk: key site of the period and key site of the problem / Hans J. Nissen 1

The significance of the Uruk sequence at Nineveh / Renate V. Gut 17

Tepe Gawra: chronology and socio-economic change in the foothills of Northern Iraq in the era of state formation / Mitchell S. Rothman 49

A chronology of Uruk artifacts from Godin Tepe in central Western Iran and implications for the interrelationships between the local and foreign cultures / Virginia R. Badler 79

Tell Brak: the 4th Millennium sequence and its implications / Joan Oates 111

'Non-Uruk' developments and Uruk-linked features on the Northern borders of Greater Mesopotamia / Marcella Frangipane 123

The Uruk expansion in Anatolia: a Mesopotamian colony and its indigenous host community at Hacinebi, Turkey / Gil Stein 149

Scientific analyses of Uruk ceramics from Jerablus Tahtani and other Middle-Upper Euphrates sites / Fiona M.K. Stephen, Edgar Peltenburg 173

Jebel Aruda: variations on a Late Uruk domestic theme / Govert van Driel 191

Contacts between the 'Uruk' world and the Levant during the Fourth Millennium BC: evidence and interpretation / Graham Philip 207

Uruk into Egypt: imports and imitations / Toby A.H. Wilkinson 237

Indices

Sites and geographical names 249

Pottery styles, wares, etc. 251

Time spans 254

Persons 254.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held November 1998, Manchester.

ISBN:

0856687367

OCLC:

50188651