Early urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates
By: Lisa Cooper.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient -- Syria; Cities and towns, Ancient -- Euphrates Valley; Syria -- History -- To 333 B.C; Euphrates Valley -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Environment and subsistence; title: Settlement and socio-political structure; title: Defence of early Bronze Age cities; title: Housing and households; title: Large-scale secular buildings; title: Communal places of worship; title: Crafts and craft production; title: Death, funerary monuments, and ancestor cults; title: The end of the early Bronze Age : Euphrates settlement in decline.