Preludes to urbanism
Subtitle: the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia
By: edited by Augusta McMahon & Harriet Crawford ; in honour of Joan Oates
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs; McDonald Institute monographs
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781902937656; 9781902937724
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Cities and towns; Copper age; Prehistoric Antiquities; Antiquities
Notes: "This volume explores early complex society and nascent urbanism, based in studies of Mesopotamia during the fifth-fourth millennia BC. Urbanism in the Near East has traditonally been located in late fourth-millennium BC southern Mesopotamia (south Iraq); but recent excavatoons and surveys in northeast Syria and southest Turkey have identified a distinctively northen Mesopotamian variant of this development,  which can be dated to the early fourth millennium BC."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.