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Preludes to urbanism : the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia /

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 excavatoons and surveys in northea...

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Other Authors:	McMahon, Augusta (Editor), Crawford, Harriet E. W. (Editor), Oates, Joan (honouree.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK : Oxford, UK ; Oakville, Connecticut : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ; Oxbow Books, [2014]
Series:	McDonald Institute monographs.
Subjects:	Cities and towns > Middle East. Copper age > Middle East. Antiquities, Prehistoric > Middle East. Middle East > Antiquities.

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