essay
Cultural action in the Uruk world
uruk mesopotamia & its neighbors : cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation • Sante Fe, Nm • Published In 2001 • Pages: 123-147
By: Wright, Henry T. (Henry Tutwiler).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wright in this essay on the Uruk world believes that the Uruk expansion period lasted hundreds of years longer than earlier scholars had thought; more than a thousand years in his estimate. He describes the size and diversity of the region surveyed and discusses how travel time had shrunk to some degree in the area because of the better use of the rivers as routes of communication and because of the domestication of the donkey used in transportation. In the basic use of raw materials Wright contradicts Algaze's model by showing that the resources of the alluvium were greater than Algaze implies. The author then reviews some areas that need further study in regard to the material record, these being food production, craft organization, tribute, and control. He concludes this essay with a sketch of the long transition from small, scattered agricultural villages to cities, and increasing political and economic elaboration and competition (Rothman, 2001, no. 18, p. 15).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Diet
- Population
- Exploitative activities
- Exchange transactions
- Sociocultural trends
- 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
- 6000-5000 BP (4000-3000 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry T. Wright
- For bibliographical references see document 17:Rothman
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2001049321
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Middle East--Civilization--To 622/Erech (Extinct city)