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Configurations of settlement
Uruk countryside: the natural setting of urban societies, [by] Robert McC. Adams and Hans J. Nissen • Chicago • Published In 1972 • Pages: 1-94
By: Adams, Robert McCormick.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is essentially a study of settlement and urbanization patterns of the early and late Uruk cultures in the Warka region of Iraq during the Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamian period (6000-5100 BP). Data relevant to other archaeological traditions outside of the time frame noted above, constituting a large part of this work, have not been indexed with Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM)subjects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Urban and rural life
- Population
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6000-87 BP (4000-1913 AD)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Warka Region, Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert McC. Adams
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78179489
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Erech (Extinct city)/Iraq--Antiquities