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The Uruk period in southern Mesopotamiaessay 2001 • Pollock, Susan
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia • Middle East > Middle East
Pollock suggests in this essay that many general scenarios that seek to explain developments in the fourth millennium in Greater Mesopotamia are based on assumptions about the political economy of the southern alluvial lowlands that require reconside...Of priestesses, princes and poor relationsarticle 1991 • Pollock, Susan
Early Dynastic Mesopotamia • Middle East > Middle East
Pollock re-examines Woolley's data from the Royal Cemeteries of Ur. Woolley excavated the cemetery between 1922 and 1934 but did not save the skeletons. The most well known graves (the ones with great wealth and with human sacrifices) date from the E...