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The Uruk world systemBook 1993 • Algaze, Guillermo
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia • Middle East > Middle East
Recent studies on the archaeological development and early history of areas in the northern and eastern periphery of the southern Mesopotamian alluvium has produced an abundance of information allowing the scholar to explore a number of questions of ...The prehistory of imperialismessay 2001 • Algaze, Guillermo, 1954
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia • Middle East > Middle East
In this essay Algaze argues that cases of pristine state formation, by their very nature, involve processes of external expansion that can be characterized as early examples of economic imperialism. During the fourth millennium BC., polities in the s...Kurban Hröyük and the Late Chalcolithic Period in the northwest Mesopotamian peripheryessay 1986 • Algaze, Guillermo, 1954
Jemdet Nasr • Middle East > Middle East
Algaze describes the Late Chalcolithic findings from the site of Kurban Hoyuk, especially the ceramics. He sees Mesopotamian influence extending into Turkey during the Late Uruk period. This influence breaks down during the '…final phase of the Uruk ...