Article: Uruk Mesopotamia and its neighbors: cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation. (Book Reviews: Archaeology).(Book Review)

Article: Early evidence of reed boats from southeast Anatolia. (News & ...
Antiquity;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... site of Eridu in Southern Mesopotamia (Safar 1981 ... merchants from southern Mesopotamia during the later ... network known as the Uruk expansion, the extensive ... city-states of southern Mesopotamia in the Uruk Period ...

Article: Rad und Wagen: Der Ursprung einer Innovation: Wagen im Vorderen ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... northern Syria, southern Mesopotamia, and the Indus ... urban cultures of southern Mesopotamia has been questioned ... both see the "Uruk Expansion" as a key phenomenon ... civilizations of southern Mesopotamia. Hence, he suggests ...

Article: Civilization and its discontents: why did the world's first ...
Science News;  March 3, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Egyptian residents and the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), who fashioned ... Washington, D.C., who calls the Uruk expansion "the first urban revolution." Adams ... the fundamental significance of the Uruk expansion -- the introduction, for the first ...

Article: Excavations at Tell Brak: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Research, 2001], esp. G. Schwartz, "Syria and the Uruk Expansion," pp. 233-64.) The thickness of some of the excavated ... This result contradicts the assumed importance of the "Uruk expansion" at Brak, and Matthews concludes that occupation at the ...

Article: Pottery and p-values: 'Seafaring Merchants of Ur?' re-examined.
Antiquity;  December 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... millennium BC Ubaid pottery from sites in southern Mesopotamia, had been found in Saudi Arabia ... pottery arrived in the Gulf from southern Mesopotamia in the equipment of Ubaid traders ... sherds from ten sites: four in southern Mesopotamia (Ur, Tell al Ubaid, Eridu and ...

Article: Tracing the earliest cities. (archaeological discoveries in ...
The Middle East;  February 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... place of origin 5,000 years ago in southern Mesopotamia, has fascinated archaeologists ... urban settlements were limited to southern Mesopotamia. Dr Glenn Schwartz, a US archaeologist ... manner in which the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia passed on their writing skills to ...

Article: The Ancient Mesopotamian City.(Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... has extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter. After a brief discussion of the origins of urbanism and of the Uruk expansion, Van De Mieroop concentrates on the later periods, stressing the continuity of Mesopotamian civilization, rather than ...