Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan
Subtitle: Excavations at Tal-E Malyan in the Highlands of Iran (University Museum Monograph 117)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781931707459
Subjects: World history; History - General History; History: World; Civilization; Excavations (Archaeology); Anshan (Extinct city); Iran
First sentence: Until very recently the primacy of Sumerian civilization over its neighbors to the east has been taken for granted, at least in part because excavations in southern Babylonia during the early decades of the twentieth century provided such a wealth of detail on Sumer, in contrast to our meager knowledge of Elam and Anshan.