Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north.(Research)

From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted in a massive population shift into large sites' said Nissen in 1988. 'These new city-states set the pattern for Mesopotamia as the heartland of cities' (Adams 1981; Yoffee 1998). And for Stone & Zimansky (2005) 'Remains of the world's first cities are the most noteworthy feature of the landscape in southern Iraq'. But at Tell Brak Joan Oates and her team are ...

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