Mesopotamian Archaeology
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Author | : Roger Matthews |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135134537 |
The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its origins in the nineteenth century up to the present day. Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the original site of many of the major developments in human history, such as farming, the rise of urban literate societies and the first great empires of Akkad, Babylonia and Assyria. Dr. Matthews places the discipline within its historical and social context, and explains how archaeologists conduct their research through excavation, survey and other methods. In four fundamental chapters, he uses illustrated case-studies to show how archaeologists have approached central themes such as: * the shift from hunting to farming * complex societies * empires and imperialism * everyday life. This will be both an ideal introductory work and useful as background reading on a wide range of courses.
Author | : Dr. Roger Matthews |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415253160 |
This innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its origins in the 19th century up the to present day.
Author | : Percy Stuart Peache Handcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Iraq |
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Author | : Percy Stuart Peache Handcock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Iraq |
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Author | : Peter Roger Stuart Moorey |
Publisher | : Eisenbrauns |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781575060422 |
This is the first systematic attempt to survey in detail the archaeological evidence for the crafts and craftsmanship of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia, covering the period ca. 8000-300 B.C.E. As creators of some of the earliest farming and urban communities known to us, these people were among the first pioneers of many crafts and skills that remain fundamental to modern ways of life. Many of the raw materials for crafts had to be imported from outside the river valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, providing an unusually sensitive indicator of the commercial and cultural contacts of Mesopotamia. In this book, Dr. Moorey reviews briefly the textual evidence, and then goes on to examine in detail the material evidence for a wide range of crafts using stones, both common and ornamental, animal products--from hippopotamus ivory to ostrich egg-shells--ceramics, glazed materials and glass, metals, and building materials. With a comprehensive bibliography, this will be a key work of reference for archaeologists and those interested in the early history of crafts and technology, as well as for specialist historians of the ancient Near East.
Author | : Daniel T. Potts |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780485930016 |
Likely to become a standard work for students of the ancient Near East, and for those interested in the high cultures of the region, this account is also a highly accessible repository of information valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, etc
Author | : Brian M. Fagan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Tells the story of archaeological travel and excavation in Iraq -- then Mesopotamia -- from the time of the great Arab geographers to the 2003 devastation of the Iraq National Museum. Fagan tells of Henry Rawlinson, Jules Oppert, and Edward Hincks, decipherers of cuneiform; Claudius and Mary Rich, observers of Nineveh and Babylon; and Émile Botta and Austen Henry Layard, who revealed the Assyrian civilisation to an astonished world. Here, also, are men like Hormuzd Rassam, whose illegal digging and plundering horrified local officials, and Wallis Budge, consummate smuggler of cuneiform tablets. Fagan also recounts the careers of the multi-talented administrator Gertrude Bell, a primary influence in the creation of the nation of Iraq, and of Leonard Woolley, renowned for his excavation of Sumerian civilisation at Ur. Bringing this remarkable history up to date, Fagan chronicles the development of scientific archaeology in Mesopotamia, the growing Iraqi involvement in archaeology, and the tragic events of recent years that led to the looting of the Iraq National Museum and many archaeological sites.
Author | : Susan Pollock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1999-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521575683 |
Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Author | : Richard S. Ellis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Author | : A. Leo Oppenheim |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022617767X |
"This splendid work of scholarship . . . sums up with economy and power all that the written record so far deciphered has to tell about the ancient and complementary civilizations of Babylon and Assyria."—Edward B. Garside, New York Times Book Review Ancient Mesopotamia—the area now called Iraq—has received less attention than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations. But numerous small clay tablets buried in the desert soil for thousands of years make it possible for us to know more about the people of ancient Mesopotamia than any other land in the early Near East. Professor Oppenheim, who studied these tablets for more than thirty years, used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago. Following Oppenheim's death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun. "To any serious student of Mesopotamian civilization, this is one of the most valuable books ever written."—Leonard Cottrell, Book Week "Leo Oppenheim has made a bold, brave, pioneering attempt to present a synthesis of the vast mass of philological and archaeological data that have accumulated over the past hundred years in the field of Assyriological research."—Samuel Noah Kramer, Archaeology A. Leo Oppenheim, one of the most distinguished Assyriologists of our time, was editor in charge of the Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute and John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Chicago.