Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact

Stein, Gil J.

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Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact

uruk mesopotamia & its neighbors : cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation • Sante Fe, Nm • Published In 2001 • Pages:

By: Stein, Gil J..

Abstract
The general emphasis in this article in on the impact of Mesopotamian expansion diuring the Middle and Late Uruk periods on the neighboring societies in Iran, Syria, and Anatolia (Turkey). This study is divided into three parts. Part 1 presents evidence from Hacinebi indicating that the indigenous polities of this area were already complex before the Uruk expanision so that one cannot argue that contact with Mesopotamia was the primary influence on political development in the periphery. In part 2 Stein presents a definition of colonies and their archaeological correlates. Using these criteria the author shows that a small colony of ethnically distinct Mesopotamians was present at Hacinebi for a least two centuries but did not dominate the local Anatolian population either politically or economically. Finally, in part 3, Stein explores the implications of this long-term, peaceful, symmetric exchange for the overrall organization of the Uruk regional interaction network (p. 266).

Acculturation and culture contact

Chronologies and culture sequences

Ceramic technology

Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia

HRAF PubDate

2000

Region

Middle East