Title: Household and state in upper Mesopotamia
Description: Analyzing evidence from a town site in southeastern Turkey that dates to the third millennium B.C., Patricia Wattenmaker uses patterns in the production of ceramics, stone tools, textiles, and food to explore a fundamental archaeological and anthropological question: why did craft specialization intensify concurrently with complex, urban societies?
Subjects: Economic specialization, Excavations (Archaeology), Prehistoric Industries, Copper age, Bronze age, Antiquities, Prehistoric Economics, Iraq, economic conditions, Iraq, politics and government
Places: Turkey, Karababa Basin (Turkey), Karababa Basin, Kurban Höyük Site (Turkey)