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This book is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first florescence of early state and urban societies in the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. Susan Pollock’s approach is explicitly anthropological, and draws on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich our understanding of the ancient Mesopotamian past. It explores the ways people of different genders and classes contributed and responded to changes in political, economic, and ideological realms. The interpretations are based on studies of regional settlement patterns, faunal remains, artifact distributions and activity patterning, iconography, texts and burials.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #246625 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
' ... a very useful addition to the growing body of secondary archaeological literature on Mesopotamia ... It is also well written, carefully referenced, indexed, suitably illustrated and includes an annoted bibliography. As such, it should certainly appeal to its audience.' Antiquity

Review
‘ … a very useful addition to the growing body of secondary archaeological literature on Mesopotamia … It is also well written, carefully referenced, indexed, suitably illustrated and includes an annoted bibliography. As such, it should certainly appeal to its audience.’ Antiquity

Synopsis
This book is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first florescence of early state and urban societies in the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. Susan Pollock's approach is explicitly anthropological, and draws on contemporary theoretical perspectives to enrich our understanding of the ancient Mesopotamian past. It explores the ways people of different genders and classes contributed and responded to changes in political, economic, and ideological realms. The interpretations are based on studies of regional settlement patterns, faunal remains, artifact distributions and activity patterning, iconography, texts and burials.

Customer Reviews

Enticing and in-depth review of major aspects of Mesopotamia
To a historian interested in beginning to learn about cultures in the middle-east region, this book will prove invaluable. Susan Pullock describes the major aspects in Mesopotamia in a unique way because she describes the effects of such aspects on other civilisations near that area.Moreover, she backs everything that she writes with evidence from the Bible and other writers in the same of historical research. You can see the Ziggurats and the maps of palaces which make you relive those ancient days in the land between the two rivers.