Publication Information
Author:
Algaze,
Guillermo, 1954-
Title:
The Uruk world system: the dynamics of expansion of
early Mesopotamian civilization
Published By:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xii,
162 p.: ill.
By line: Guillermo Algaze
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
HRAF, 2000. Computer File
Culture:
Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia (MH60)
Subjects:
Settlement patterns (361);
Ceramic technology (323);
Routes (487);
Chronologies and culture sequences (911);
Cultural stratigraphy (912);
Cultural participation (184);
Acculturation and culture contact (177);
External migration (167);
Abstract:
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 major import for the early
historical development of ancient Near Eastern societies. One of these questions
provides the primary focus of this document: '…that of the extent and
magnitude of the processes of external expansion that accompanied the
crystallization of Sumer-Akkadian civilization in the Mesopotamian alluvium
duiring the Uruk period in the second half of the fourth millennium B.C.' (p.
ix). However, instead of examining the emergence of civilization in the alluvium
from the point of view of changes in the Mesopotamian core iteself, the author
focuses on the external manifestation and consequences of that process that
includes the colonization of the neighboring Susiana plain of Khuzestan
(Iran)and the establishment of a variety of specialized setttlements at
strategic locations across the northern plains and in the surrounding
highlands.
Document Number:
3
Document ID: mh60-003
Document Type:
Monograph
Language:
English
Note:
Revision of thesis (Ph.
D.)--University of Chicago, 1986.
Field Date:
1988-1990
Evaluation:
Archaeologist-4, 5
Analyst:
John Beierle;
2006
Coverage Date:
6000-5100 BP (4000-3100
BC)
Coverage Place:
Uruk sites,
Syro-Mesopotamian Plains, Turkey, Iraq, and
Syria
LCSH:
Iraq--Civilization--To 634/Middle
East--Civilization--To 622
