TY  - CHAP
AU  - Adams, Robert McCormick
PY  - 1981
DA  - 1981//
TI  - Heartland of cities: surveys of ancient settlement and land use on the central floodplain of the Euphrates
PB  - University of Chicago Press
CY  - Chicago
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Civilization
KW  - To 634
KW  - Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
KW  - Identification
KW  - Topography and geology
KW  - Water supply
KW  - Settlement patterns
KW  - Urban and rural life
KW  - Chronologies and culture sequences
KW  - Archaeological inventories
AB  - Adams describes the Mesopotamian environment, his surface survey, and its results in this pivitol study on the settlement patterns in Mesopotamia and the Diyala region. Adams' book describes settlements and traces some of the ancient canals and river courses from the Ubaid Period up through the Late Islamic Periods. However, only materials that pertain to the Early Dynastic Period were indexed for Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) codes. Adams' survey results help to show the urbanization of the area during the Early Dynastic Period, settlement hierarchies, other settlement shifts and land use patterns. He also explores the reasons for the instability of irrigation agriculture in this area; such as the need for a stable central government (an idea that some other authors would dispute - see 3: D'iakonov ) and the problems with salinization of the soil. Adams' book also includes a general site catalog. It provides information on the size of the site, the kind of artifacts found at the sites and the sites' probable time period(s).
SN  - 0226005445
UR  - https://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/document?id=mh64-001
LA  - English
N1  - Robert McC. Adams
ID  - mh64-001
Y1  - 2023-06-04
ER  -