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099			_aE3a _bExcavations and Archaeological Studies In Areas Outside Turkey--Syria, Lebanon--General
100			_aMcMAHON, Augusta
245		0	_aPreludes to Urbanism: The Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia
250			_a1st
260			_bMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research _aCambridge _c2014
505			_aContributors viFigures and plates viiTables ixIntroduction 1Harriet Crawford and Augusta McMahonPart I Early Urban Landscapes 5Chapter 1 Travels in Edin: Deltaic Resilience and Early Urbanism in Greater Mesopotamia 7 Jennifer R. Pournelle and Guillermo AlgazeChapter 2 Hollow Ways and Routes Around Tell Brak 35Tony Wilkinson, Charles French and Miranda SempleChapter 3 Urban Form at Tell Brak Across Three Millennia 49Jason UrChapter 4 From Village to City, the Wrong Question? 63Jean-Louis HuotPart II Production and Consumption in Early Urbanism 67Chapter 5 Fifth-millennium bc Obsidian Production and Consumption in Area TW, Tell Brak 69Lamya KhalidiChapter 6 The Political Economy of the Upper Khabur in the Late Chalcolithic 1-2: Ceramic Mass-production, Standardization and Specialization 89Salam Al Kuntar and Khaled Abu JayyabChapter 7 Early Uruk Ceramic Assemblages: Cultural Relations in Greater Mesopotamia During the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Millennia bc 109Henry T. WrightChapter 8 Exotic Animal Consumption at Tell Brak in the Mid-fourth Millennium bc 127Jill WeberPart III Near Eastern Neighbours and Early Urbanism 135Chapter 9 Iran and Uruk Mesopotamia: Chronologies and Connections in the Fourth Millennium bc 137Cameron A. PetrieChapter 10 Contacts between Mesopotamia and the Caucasus in the Fourth-First Half of the Third Millennium bc 157Rauf Munchaev and Shahmardan AmirovPart IV Conflict in Early Urbanism 173Chapter 11 State Warfare and Pre-state Violent Conflict: Battle's Aftermath at Late Chalcolithic Tell Brak 175Augusta McMahonSummary 189McGuire GibsonIndex 193
541			_d2017-11-24 _aOxbow _cPurchase
650			_aIraq--Antiquities--Mesopotamia
650			_aMesopotamia--Antiquities
650			_aPrehistory
650			_aSyria--Antiquities--Tell Brak
700			_aCRAWFORD, Harriet E. W.
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