ISBN:
9780521764438
,
0521764432
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 389 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
27 cm
DDC:
939/.4
Keywords:
Pastoral systems History To 1500
;
Migration, Internal History To 1500
;
Sedentary behavior History To 1500
;
Social archaeology
;
Social archaeology
;
Archaeology Methodology
;
Middle East Civilization To 622
;
Iraq Antiquities
;
Middle East Antiquities
;
Iraq Civilization To 634
;
Pastoral systems
;
Middle East
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Migration, Internal
;
Middle East
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Sedentary behavior
;
Middle East
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Social archaeology
;
Iraq
;
Social archaeology
;
Middle East
;
Archaeology
;
Methodology
;
Iraq
;
Antiquities
;
Middle East
;
Antiquities
;
Iraq
;
Civilization
;
To 634
;
Middle East
;
Civilization
;
To 622
;
Mesopotamien
;
Nomadismus
;
Binnenwanderung
;
Sesshaftigkeit
;
Staat
;
Entstehung
;
Staatsorganisation
;
Religion
;
Soziales Netzwerk
;
Geschichte 4000 v. Chr.-1500 v. Chr.
Abstract:
"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--
Abstract:
"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--
Description / Table of Contents:
The problem with pastoralists -- Wool, writing, and religion -- From temple to tomb -- Tax and tribulation, or, Who were the Amorrites?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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