"In honour of Joan Oates."
"Most of the papers in thiis volume were presented at a conference held on 23-24 June 2008 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research"--Page 1.
"This volume explores early complex society and nascent urbanism, based in studies of Mesopotamia during the fifth-fourth millennia BC. Urbanism in the Near East has traditonally been located in late fourth-millennium BC southern Mesopotamia (south Iraq); but recent excavations and surveys in northeast Syria and southest Turkey have identified a distinctively northern Mesopotamian variant of this development, which can be dated to the early fourth millennium BC"--Back cover.
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Preludes to urbanism : the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia. ISBN 9781902937656. Published by McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
