Lisa Cooper

Early Urbanism on the Syrian Euphrates

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Produktbeschreibung

Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and success of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 701g
• ISBN-13: 9780415353519
• ISBN-10: 0415353513
• Artikelnr.: 22781580

Autorenporträt

Lisa Cooper

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface and acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Environment and subsistence
3 Settlement and socio-political structure
4 Defence of Early Bronze Age cities
5 Housing and households
6 Large-scale secular buildings
7 Communal places of worship
8 Crafts and craft production
9 Death
funerary monuments and ancestor cults
10 The end of the Early Bronze Age: Euphrates settlement in decline
11 Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index