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Sumer and the Sumerians
Harriet Crawford
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paperback. This work reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia from 3800 to 2000 BC. Num Pages: 264 pages, 87 b/w illus. 9 maps. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBLA; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 15. Weight in Grams: 516. 262 pages, 87 b/w illus. 9 maps. This work reviews the social and technological developments in Mesopotamia from 3800 to 2000 BC. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBLA; HD. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 15. Weight: 566.
Mesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. In this fully revised and expanded edition of her classic text, Sumer and the Sumerians, Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region from 3800 to 2000 BC. Drawing on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological sources, she provides a thematic exploration of this ancient civilization, examining its physical and historical background, changing settlement patterns, public and private architecture and cultural developments of the period. In this new edition, the chapter on Manufacturing Industries and Trade has been enlarged ... Read more
Mesopotamia produced one of the best-known ancient civilizations, with a literate, urban culture and highly-developed political institutions. In this fully revised and expanded edition of her classic text, Sumer and the Sumerians, Harriet Crawford reviews the extraordinary social and technological developments in the region from 3800 to 2000 BC. Drawing on the most up-to-date historical and archaeological sources, she provides a thematic exploration of this ancient civilization, examining its physical and historical background, changing settlement patterns, public and private architecture and cultural developments of the period. In this new edition, the chapter on Manufacturing Industries and Trade has been enlarged ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
262
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521533386
SKU
V9780521533386
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About Harriet Crawford
Harriet Crawford is an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute, Cambridge. She has excavated extensively in Iraq and the Gulf. Her previous publications include The Architecture of Iraq in the Third Millenium BC (1977) and Dilmun and its Gulf Neighbours (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Reviews for Sumer and the Sumerians
'the real achievement of this slim book is that Crawford does not over-generalise, but leaves the reader with an understanding of both the broad patterns as well as the differences between regions in Mesopotamia and through time.' Bibliotheca Orientalis