RT Book
T1 Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations: weaving together society
A1 Porter, Anne 1957-
LA English
PP Cambridge u.a.
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/642720231
AB "In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--
AB "In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DS73.1
SN 9780521764438
SN 0521764432
K1 Pastoral systems : Middle East : History : To 1500
K1 Migration, Internal : Middle East : History : To 1500
K1 Sedentary behavior : Middle East : History : To 1500
K1 Social archaeology : Iraq
K1 Social archaeology : Middle East
K1 Archaeology : Methodology
K1 Middle East : Civilization : To 622
K1 Iraq : Antiquities
K1 Middle East : Antiquities
K1 Iraq : Civilization : To 634