The Sumerian world
By: edited by Harriet Crawford
Series: The Routledge worlds
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780415569675; 9780203096604
Subjects: Sumerians; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Physical geography / Jennifer Pournelle; title: Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems of sumer / Tony J Wilkinson; title: Sumerian agriculture and land management / Magnus Widell; title: The end of prehistory and the Uruk period / Guillermo Algaze; title: The Sumerian language / Graham Cunningham; title: History and chronology / Nicole Brisch; title: Patterns of settlement in Sumer and Akkad / Jason Ur; title: The organisation of a Sumerian town : the physical remains of ancient social systems / Elizabeth C. Stone; title: Public buildings, palaces and temples / Marlies Heinz; title: Kings and queens : representation and reality / Claudia E. Suter; title: Sacred marriage / Kathleen McCaffrey; title: In the service of the gods : the ministering clergy / Joan Goodnick Westenholz; title: Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly and the first law code / Marc Van de Mieroop; title: Administrators and scholars : the first scribes and their ethos / Jon Taylor; title: Calendars and counting / Tonia Sharlach; title: Seals and sealings in the Sumerian world / Holly Pittman.; title: Archaeology of the Sumerian home : reconstructing Sumerian daily life / Paul Collins; title: Women and agency : a survey from late Uruk to the end of Ur III / Julia M. Ascher-Greve; title: A note on Sumerian fashion / Lamia al Gailani; title: Sumerian industries and their makers : crafting textiles / Rita P. Wright; title: Death and burial / Helga Vogel; title: Sumerian mythology / Benjamin R. Foster; title: Trade in the Sumerian world / Harriet Crawford; title: North Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC / Augusta McMahon; title: Cultural developments in western Syria and the Middle Euphrates Valley during the Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia / Christoph Bachhuber; title: The kindgom of Mari / Jean-Claude Margueron; title: Ebla / Frances Pinnock; title: Iran and its neighbours / C.C.Lamberg-Karlovsky; title: The Sumerians and the Gulf / Robert Carter; title: Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between / Christopher P. Thornton; title: Egypt and Mesopotamia / Alice Stevenson; title: The Mesopotamian marshlands, a personal recollection / Azzam Alwash.