Bevel Rimmed Bowls and Ancient Mesopotamian Economy
Channel: Ermenher
Date: 2020-03-31

When cities began to rise up in Mesopotamia, the people replaced their ornate Ubaid pottery with simple, crude pottery. This shift in pottery wasn't a shift in aesthetic preference, but a shift in economic system. 

Sources:
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC
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