Sheep Husbandry and Production of Wool, Garments and Cloths in Archaic Sumer.(Book Review) From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Englund, R.K. | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Sheep Husbandry and Production of Wool, Garments and Cloths in Archaic Sumer. By KRYSTYNA SZARZYNSKA. Warsaw: AGADE, 2002. Pp. iv + 60, illus. [euro]12 (paper).

One wants to be kind to the short treatment of textile production in the Late Uruk period ca. 3300-3000 B.C. reviewed here. In this as in other research tasks, K. Szarzynska has evidently spent many hours gathering and considering a substantial number of proto-cuneiform records that ostensibly document the manage...