Settlement And Society
Subtitle: Essays Dedicated to Robert Mccormick Adams (Ideas, Debates and Perspectives) (Ideas, Debates and Perspectives) (Ideas, Debates and Perspectives)
By: Elizabeth C. Stone
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Published: April 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781931745321
Subjects: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; History Of Anthropological Thought; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Ancient - General; Archaeology; Anthropology - Cultural; Anthropology - General; Antiquities; History; Middle East
First sentence: This collection of essays by Robert McC. Adams's students and colleagues is offered as a tribute to the breadth and depth of his research and as an appreciation of the influence he has had on all of us.
Table of contents: title: Figures and Tables
pagenum: vii; title: Contributors
pagenum: xiii; label: Stone, Elizabeth C.
title: Introduction
pagenum: xv; label: Kouchoukos, Nicholas and Wilkinson, Tony
title: Landscape Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Past, Present, and Future
pagenum: 1; label: Nissen, Hans J.
title: Archaeological Surveys and Mesopotamian History
pagenum: 19; label: Pournelle, Jennifer R.
title: KLM to CORONA: A Bird's-Eye View of Cultural Ecology and Early Mesopotamian Urbanization
pagenum: 29; label: Hole, Frank
title: Cycles of Settlement in the Khorramabad Valley in Luristan, Iran
pagenum: 63; label: Schuldenrein, Joseph and Wright, Rita and Khan, Mohammed A.
title: Harappan Geoarchaeology Reconsidered: Holocene Landscapes and Environments of the Greater Indus Plain
pagenum: 83; label: Winter, Irene J.
title: Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of  the Agrarian State
pagenum: 117; label: Carter, Elizabeth
title: Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium BC
pagenum: 139; label: Zimansky, Paul
title: The Lattimore Model and Hatti's Kaska Frontier
pagenum: 157; label: Wright, Henry T.
title: Ancient Agency: Using Models of Intentionality to Understand the Dawn of Despotism
pagenum: 173; label: Steinkeller, Piotr
title: City and Countryside in Third-Millennium Southern Babylonia
pagenum: 185; label: Stone, Elizabeth C.
title: The Mesopotamian Urban Experience
pagenum: 213; label: Rothman, Mitchell S.
title: The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia
pagenum: 235; label: Whitcomb, Donald
title: Islamic Archaeology and the "Last behind Baghdad"
pagenum: 255; label: Cowgill, George L
title: The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico
pagenum: 261; label: Possehl, Gregory
title: The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat
pagenum: 297; label: Stein, Gil J. and Ozbal, Rana
title: A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary Dynamics of Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia
pagenum: 329; label: Algaze, Guillermo
title: The Sumerian Takeoff
pagenum: 343; label: Yener, K. Ashban
title: Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology: A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey
pagenum: 369