Porter, Anne (Author)
In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE.
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Camels, Donkeys and Caravan Trade: An Emerging Context from Barāqish, Ancient Yathill (Wadi Al-Jawf, Yemen)
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(2000)
A 3405: An unusual astronomical text from Uruk
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Berthon, Rémi;
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(2013)
Problems of Relating Environmental History and Human Settlement in the Classical and Late-Classical Periods: The Example of Southern Jordan
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Meadow, Richard H.;
Patel, Ajita K.;
(2003)
Prehistoric Pastoralism in Northwestern South Asia from the Neolithic through the Harappan Period
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Daróczi-Szabó, László;
Daróczi-Szabó, Márta;
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Tugya, Beáta;
(2014)
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Blazic, Svetlana;
(2014)
Camels from Roman Imperial Sites in Serbia
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(2017)
Astronomical Time versus Social Time: A Case Study from Ancient Egypt
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Roustaei, Kourosh;
Mashkour, Marjan;
Tengberg, Margareta;
(2015)
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Christine Proust;
John Steele;
(2019)
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Mashkour, Marjan;
Beech, Mark;
(2014)
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Thomas, Kenneth D.;
(2003)
Minimizing Risk? Approaches to Pre-Harappan Human Ecology on the North-West Margin of the Greater Indus System
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Sapir-Hen, Lidar;
Ben-Yosef, Erez;
(2014)
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Balasescu, Adrian;
(2014)
Camels in Romania
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Potts, Daniel T.;
(2012)
Technological Transfer and Innovation in Ancient Eurasia
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Robert Middeke-Conlin;
(2020)
The Making of a Scribe: Errors, Mistakes and Rounding Numbers in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa
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(2012)
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(2003)
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(2014)
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life
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Damerow, Peter;
(2012)
The Origins of Writing and Arithmetic
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