Ornament

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Visual Arts

Special Burial Practices and Funerals

Prayers and Sacrifices

Religious and Educational Structures

Settlement Patterns

Streets and Traffic

Military Installations

Anthropometry

Morbidity

Metallurgy

Smiths and Their Crafts

Reviews and Critiques

Urban and Rural Life

Military Organization

Instigation of War

Composition of Population

Territorial Hierarchy

Medium of Exchange

Internal Trade

External Trade

Public Structures

Spirits and Gods

Priesthood

Congregations

Topography and Geology

Mineral Resources

Organization and Analysis of Results

Identification

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Bibliographies in Sources

Woven and Other Interworked Fabrics

Normal Garb

Special Garments

Diagnostic Material Attributes

State Enterprise

Classes

Production and Supply

Labor Supply and Employment

Location

Organized Ceremonial

Occupational Specialization

Dwellings

Household

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Fishing

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Diet

Ceramic Technology

Utensils

General Tools

Writing

Social Control

Judicial Authority

Mourning

Eschatology

Climate

Fauna

Flora

Population

Pastoral Activities

Property in Movables

Real Property

Burial Practices and Funerals

Form and Rules of Government

Chief Executive

TRADITION SUMMARY: EARLY DYNASTIC MESOPOTAMIA

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

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SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION, HEALTH, AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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The Early Dynastic Mesopotamia tradition is found on the lower Tigris, Euphrates, and Diyala river valleys, ca. 4900-4334 BP.  The region included some twenty to thirty city-states, each with a principle center linked to smaller towns and villages. Walled cities had a central temple surrounded by auxiliary religious and political buildings, and workshops. The economy was based on irrigation agriculture and animal husbandry. Powerful leaders, often referred to as kings, headed a complex hierarchical political system. Two distinctive artifacts of the period were cylinder seals and votive statues.

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