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The Uruk countryside : the natural setting of urban societies

Title
The Uruk countryside : the natural setting of urban societies / Robert McC. Adams and Hans J. Nissen.
Author
Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1972.

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Additional Authors
Nissen, Hans Jörg.
Description
x, 241 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm
Subject
  • 15.51 Antiquity
  • Antiquities
  • City population
  • Country
  • Arqueologia/pre-historia (oriente medio)
  • Arqueologia/pre-historia (mesopotamia)
  • Geografia urbana
  • Antropologia urbana
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Iraq > Erech
  • Erech (Extinct city)
  • Iraq > Antiquities
  • Iraq
  • Iraq > Erech (Extinct city)
  • Uruk
  • Uruk
  • Erech (Extinct city) > Antiquities
  • Irak > Ourouk (ville ancienne) > Archéologie urbaine
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Configurations of settlement. Physiographic characteristics and problems ; Spatial and temporal patterns of early urbanization ; Continuity and change in early historic settlements and watercourses / Robert McC. Adams -- Historical and topographical notes : Ur III-Old babylonian periods / Hans J. Nissen -- Configurations of settlement. Resettlement and abandonment in later antiquity ; Recent life and settlement ; The Uruk/Warka region in historic and comparative perspective / Robert McC. Adams -- Analysis of archaeological surface collections. Typological dating criteria ; Surface collections / Hans J. Nissen -- Appendix : Catalog of surveyed sites / Robert McC. Adams.
ISBN
  • 0226005003
  • 9780226005003
LCCN
78179489
OCLC
  • ocm00483580
  • 483580
  • SCSB-14375174
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library