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Basic Texts (53 items)
These are books that will be of value throughout the module, including for assessments.They are available in the library, some of them as electronic resources.
The Sumerian world - Harriet Crawford, 2012Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Sumerian world - Harriet E. W. Crawford, 2013Book
The ancient Near East: history, society and economy - Mario Liverani, Soraia Tabatabai,2014
Book
The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches - Roger Matthews, 2003Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches - Roger Matthews, 2013Book
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book
Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives - Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck,2005
Book
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book
A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East - Daniel T. Potts, 2012Book
The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East - Eric M. Meyers, AmericanSchools of Oriental Research, 1997
Book
Additional introductory reading and reference (6 items)
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization: the evolution of an urban landscape -Guillermo Algaze, 2008
Book
The literature of ancient Sumer - Jeremy A. Black, 2004Book
Mesopotamia before history - Petr Charvâat, 2002Book
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book
Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East - Michael Roaf, 1990Book
A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC - Marc Van de Mieroop, 2007Book
Web-sites (12 items)
Gate-way to many web-sites on the Ancient Near EastWebpage
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East ArchivesWebpage | Database of Ancient Near East publications and other resources available
online
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian LiteratureWebsite
The Virtual Museum of IraqWebpage
Mesopotamia public information web-site - The British MuseumWebsite
ECAI IRAQWebpage | Portal into existing digital resources
ARCANE Project (Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East)Website
The British Institute for the Study of IraqWebsite
British Institute of Persian StudiesWebsite
Catalog of Publications | The Oriental Institute of the University of ChicagoWebpage | (Nb OIS and OIP)
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AMAR Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological ReportsWebpage
CDLI - Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeWebsite | Project aiming to put on-line all cuneiform documents, about 120,000 of them,
dating from 3200 – 2000 BC
Periodicals in the University of Reading library with articles related toMesopotamia (19 items)
Antiquity - Osbert Guy Stanhope CrawfordJournal
American antiquity - Society for American ArchaeologyJournal
American journal of archaeology: the journal of the Archaeological Institute of AmericaJournal
Anatolian studies - British Institute of Archaeology at AnkaraJournal
Journal of anthropological archaeologyJournal
Archaeometry - University of Oxford. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the Historyof Art, Gesellschaft fèur Naturwissenschaftliche Archèaologie Archaeometrie, Society forArchaeological Sciences (U.S.), Associazione italiana di archeometria
Journal
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research - American Schools of OrientalResearch
Journal
Cambridge archaeological journal - McDonald Institute for Archaeological ResearchJournal
Current anthropology - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchJournal
Iran: journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies - British Institute of Persian StudiesJournal
Iraq - British School of Archaeology in IraqDocument
Journal of archaeological scienceJournal
Journal of the economic and social history of the OrientJournal
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Journal of field archaeology - Association for Field ArchaeologyJournal
Journal of Near Eastern studiesJournal
Journal of world prehistoryJournal
Near Eastern archaeology - American Schools of Oriental ResearchJournal
Paléorient: revue pluridisciplinaire de prâehistoire et protohistoire de l'Asie du Sud-Ouest= pluridisciplinary review of prehistory and protohistory of Southwestern Asia
Journal
World archaeologyJournal
Other periodicals not in the University of Reading library in whicharticles related to Mesopotamia are published (4 items)
Baghdader MitteilungenJournal
Mesopotamia.Journal
Sumer : a Journal of Archaeology in Iraq.Journal | (selected issues available – consult module convenor)
Al-RafidainJournal | (selected issues available – consult module convenor)
Bibliographies listed by weekly topics
The bibliographies are ordered according to weekly topics, and should also be used foressay preparation. Additional references for essays or seminars may also be requested.Readings marked with an asterisk are regarded as essential in order for you to maintainengagement with the module content throughout the term.
Lecture 1. Introduction to Mesopotamia: the nature of archaeologicaldata and approaches to survey and excavation, theoretical issues,chronological orientation (40 items)
In this introductory session we review the definition of Mesopotamia and its maingeographic features. We consider the archaeological and textual evidence for ourunderstanding of ancient Mesopotamia, and we provide a chronological orientation withinwhich to situate all future lectures and discussion.
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Mesopotamian geography, settlement and material culture (13 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 1-10
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | pp. 1-50
The archaeology of Syria: from complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c.16,000-300 BC) - Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz, 2002
Book | Further
Mesopotamia before history - Petr Charvâat, 2002Book | Further
Iraq beyond the headlines: history, archaeology, and war - Benjamin R. Foster, KarenPolinger Foster, Patty Gerstenblith, c2005
Book | Further | Chapters 14-16
The ancient Near East: c. 3000-330 B.C. - Amelie Kuhrt, 1995Book | Further
From Mesopotamia to Iraq: a concise history - Hans J. Nissen, Peter Heine, c2009Book | Further
'Physical geography' - J. Pournelle, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Physical geography' - J. PournelleChapter
Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East - Michael Roaf, 1990Book | Further
A history of the ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC - Marc Van de Mieroop, 2007Book | Further
'Introduction to geography, climate, topography, and hydrology' - T. J. Wilkinson, 2012Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Introduction to geography, climate, topography, and hydrology' - T. J. Wilkinson, 2012Chapter | Further
Approaches to survey and excavation, theoretical issues (21 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 10-27
The political dimension of archaeological practices - R. Bernbeck, 2012Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
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'The political dimension of archaeological practices' - R. Bernbeck, 2012Chapter | Further
Reading the past: current approaches to interpretation in archaeology - Ian Hodder, ScottHutson, 2003
Book | Further
Foundations in the dust - Seton Lloyd, 1980Book | Further
'History of the field: archaeology in Mesopotamia' - R. Matthews, 1997Chapter | Further | Chapters 1-2
'The first civilizations in the Middle East' - J. N. Postgate, 2002Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Survey (7 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 63-77
'Patterns of settlement in Sumer and Akkad' - J. Ur, 2013Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Patterns of settlement in Sumer and Akkad' - J. Ur, 2013Chapter | Essential
Heartland of cities: surveys of ancient settlement and land use on the central floodplain ofthe Euphrates - Robert McC. Adams, 1981
Book | Further
'Demographic trends from archaeological survey: case studies from the Levant and NearEast' - T. J. Wilkinson, 1999
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Regional approaches to Mesopotamian archaeology: the contribution of archaeologicalsurveys. - T. J. Wilkinson, 2000
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Archaeological landscapes of the Near East - T.J. Wilkinson, c2003Book | Further
Excavation (3 items)
Excavations at Tell Brak: Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian regional centre,1994-1996 - Roger Matthews, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, BritishSchool of Archaeology in Iraq, c2003
Book | Further
Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1985-86 - R. J. Matthews and J. N. Postgate, 1987Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
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'Uruk: the key site of the period and the key site of the problem' - H. J. Nissen, 2002Chapter | Further
Contemporary politics (3 items)
'Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past - Whose game is itanyway?' - Z. Bahrani, 1998
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Year Zero for the Archaeology of Iraq - Roger Matthews, 2003-11-15Article | Further | Forum paper by R. Matthews, with responses from H. Crawford, L.
Al-Gailani Werr, S. Labadi, M. Van De Mieroop and J. Simmons. (Xerox in Reading Room)
Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives - Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck,2005
Book | Further
Ethnoarchaeology (1 items)
'Ethnoarchaeology, analogy and ancient society' - M. Verhoeven, 2005Chapter | Further
Chronological orientation (5 items)
'History and chronology' - N. Brisch, 2013Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'History and chronology' - N. Brisch, 2013Chapter | Essential
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Chapter 2.
The ancient Near East: history, society and economy - Mario Liverani, Soraia Tabatabai,2014
Book | Further | Chapters 4-14.
'From Sumer to Babylonia: topics in the history of southern Mesopotamia' - G. Rubio, 2007Chapter | Further
Lecture 2. Mesopotamian writing and administration: origins andinterpretation of texts (54 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia was the world's first literate society, but why did writing appear atthat time and in that place? We examine the uses of writing through time in Mesopotamiaand in particular its role in shaping and articulating the world-views of Mesopotamianpeoples. We review the major languages of the region and we examine some key texts as
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case-studies of early literacy.
Origins of writing (5 items)
Mesopotamian chronicles - Jean-Jacques Glassner, Benjamin R. Foster, 2004Book | Essential | Read: Chapter 1 - The future of the past
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 149 - 172
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | pp. 51-70
'Administrators and scholars: the first scribes' - J. Taylor, 2013Chapter | Essential | Also available online - see below.
'Administrators and scholars: the first scribes' - J. Taylor, 2013Chapter | Essential
Mesopotamian languages (6 items)
'Sumerian' - J. Black, 2007Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'The Sumerian language' - G. Cunningham, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'The Sumerian language' - G. Cunningham, 2013Chapter | Further
'Babylonian and Assyrian: a history of Akkadian' - A. George, 2007Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'The lives of the Sumerian language' - P. Michalowski, 2006Chapter | Further
'Sumerian' - P. Michalowski, 2008Chapter | Further
Mesopotamian literature and uses of writing (26 items)
'Archives and libraries in the Ancient Near East' - J. Black, W. F. Tait, 2000Chapter | Further
The literature of ancient Sumer - Jeremy A. Black, 2004Book | Further | Read: Introduction, xix-lxiii.
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - Dominique Charpin, Jane MarieTodd, 2010
Book | Further
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'Babylonian beginnings: the origin of the cuneiform writing system in comparativeperspective' - J. S. Cooper, 2004
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Chapter 10.
Myths from Mesopotamia: creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others - Stephanie Dalley,2000
Book | Further
'What they wrote on clay' - M. T. Larsen, 1989Chapter | Further
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, 2006Book | Further | Especially Chapter 4. Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop, ebrary, Inc, 2006Book | Further | Especially Chapter 4.
Letters from early Mesopotamia - Piotr Michalowski, Erica Reiner, American Council ofLearned Societies, c1993
Book | Further
'Sumerian literature: an overview' - P. Michalowski, 2000Chapter | Further
Archaic bookkeeping: early writing and techniques of economic administration in theancient Near East - Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, 1993
Book | Further | (section Xerox in Reading Room)
The Archaic Texts from Uruk - Hans J. Nissen, 1986Article | Further
Early Writing in Sumer: A Review - Joan Oates, 1993-4Article | Further
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further | Chapter 11.
Three problems in the history of cuneiform writing: origins, direction of script and literacy.- M. A. Powell
Article | Further
Ancient near eastern texts - J.B. Pritchard, 1969Book | Further
The diffusion of the cuneiform writing system in northern Mesopotamia: the earliestarchaeological evidence - Philippe Quenet, 01/10/2005
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Volume: LXVII Issue: 2 Page: 31-40
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture - Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, 2011Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture - Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, 2011Book | Further
'The scribal artefact: technological innovation in the Uruk period' - J. C. Ross, 2010Chapter | Further
'Archival practices at Babylonia in the third millennium' - P. Steinkeller, 2003Chapter | Further
Epics of Sumerian kings: the matter of Aratta - H. L. J. Vanstiphout, Jerrold S. Cooper,American Council of Learned Societies, c2003
Book | Further
Cuneiform archives and libraries: papers read at the 30e Rencontre assyriologiqueinternationale, Leiden, 4-8 July 1983 - K. R. Veenhof, Rencontre assyriologiqueinternationale, 1986
Book | Further
The earliest Mesopotamian writing - C. Woods, 2010Document | Further
Changing watercourses in Babylonia: towards a reconstruction of the ancient environmentin lower Mesopotamia - H. Gasche, Michel Tanret, 1998-
Book | Further
Interpretation of texts (14 items)
The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches - Roger Matthews, 2003Book | Essential | pp. 56-64. Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches - Roger Matthews, 2013Book | Essential | pp. 56-64.
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'After the battle is over: the Stele of the Vultures and the beginning of historical narrativein the art of the Ancient Near East' - I. J. Winter, 1985
Chapter | Essential | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Charisma and control: on continuity and change in early Mesopotamian bureaucraticsystems' - P. Michalowski, 1987
Chapter | Further
'Early Mesopotamian communicative systems: art, literature, and writing' - P. MichalowskiChapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Sailing to Babylon, reading the dark side of the moon' - P. Michalowski, 1996Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Commemoration,writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia' - P. Michalowski, 1999Chapter | Further
Cuneiform catalysis: the first information revolution. - J. N. Postgate, 1984Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Text and figure in ancient Mesopotamia: match and mismatch' - J. N. Postgate, 1994Chapter | Further
Bronze Age bureaucracy: writing and the practice of government in Assyria - J.N. Postgate,2013
Book | Further
The evidence for early writing: utilitarian or ceremonial? - 2015/01/02Article | Further
Cuneiform texts and the writing of history - Marc Van de Mieroop, 1999Book | Further
Representing abundance: The visual dimension of the agrarian state - I. Winter, 2007Chapter | Further | (Xerox in the Reading Room)
'Written documents as excavated artefacts and the holistic interpretation of theMesopotamian Archaeological Record' - R. L. Zettler, 1996
Chapter | Further
Contextual case studies (2 items)
Texts, Architecture and Ethnographic Analogy: Patterns of Residence in Old BabylonianNippur - Elizabeth C. Stone and Elizabeth T. Stone, 1981
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Administration of the temple of Innana at Nippur under the Third Dynasty of Ur:archaeological and documentary evidence' - R. L. Zettler, 1987
Chapter | Further
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Lecture 3. Environment and agricultural management (56 items)
How did the inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia maximise the agricultural potential oftheir very distinctive landscapes? In this class we consider the special environments ofMesopotamia and the ways in which they were brought into the urban-rural dialectic ofancient Mesopotamia, not least through the systematic use of irrigation.
Environment (25 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential
Flora of Iraq: Volume 1: introduction to the flora : an account of the geology, soils, climateand ecology of Iraq with gazetteer, glossary and bibliography - Evan Guest, 1966
Book | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Changing watercourses in Babylonia: towards a reconstruction of the ancient environmentin lower Mesopotamia - H. Gasche, Michel Tanret, 1998-
Book | Further
'Landscape archaeology in Mesopotamia: past, present, and future' - N. Kouchoukos, T.Wilkinson, 2007
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Reconstructing environment. Natural resources and human interrelations through time: aresume - W. Matthews, 2008
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Paléorient Volume 23:2Journal | Further | Articles on palaeoenvironment of ancient Near East
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further | Chapters 3-4.
'KLM to CORONA: A bird's-eye view of cultural ecology and early MesopotamianUrbanization' - J. R. Pournelle, 2007
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Civilizing climate: social responses to climate change in the ancient near East - ArleneMiller Rosen, c2007
Book | Further
Holocene climate and cultural evolution in late prehistoric–early historic West Asia -Michael Staubwasser, Harvey Weiss, 2006-11
Article | Further
Archaeological landscapes of the Near East - T.J. Wilkinson, c2003Book | Further
Conceptual geography (1 items)
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'Mental maps and ideology: reflections on Subartu' - P. Michalowski, 1986Chapter | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Climatic amelioration in the mid-fourth millennium BC (4 items)
Initial Social Complexity in Southwestern Asia - by Guillermo Algaze, 2001Article | Further
'Environmental instabilities and urban origins' - F. Hole, 1994Chapter | Further
The climatic changes in Mesopotamia and bordering areas. - W. Nützel, 1976Article | Further
Did prehistoric landscape management retard the post-glacial spread of woodland inSouthwest Asia? - Roberts, Neil, Dec 2002
Article | Further
Environmental stress in the late third millennium BC (9 items)
'Third millennium climate in the Near East based upon pollen evidence' - S. Bottema, 1997Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea - H.M. Cullen, 2000
Article | Further
'The soil record of an exceptional event at 4000 B.P. in the Middle East' - M. A. Courty,1998
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Environmental vulnerability of early societies: some reflections on modelling issues' - H. N.Dalfes, 1997
Chapter | Further
Cultural Responses to Climate Change during the Late Holocene - Peter B. deMenocal,2001
Article | Further
'Evidence for Mid-Holocene environmental change in the western Khabur drainage, northeastern Syria' - F. Hole, 1997
Chapter | Further
Imperial Catastrophe or Local Incident? An Akkadian Hoard from Tell Brak, Syria - RogerMatthews, 1994
Article | Further
'Late third millennium abrupt climate change and social collapse in West Asia and Egypt' -H. Weiss, 1997
Chapter | Recommended
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What Drives Societal Collapse? - Harvey Weiss and Raymond S. Bradley, 2001Article | Further
An agricultural management revolution (30 items)
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, 2006Book | Essential | Chapters 2-3. Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop, ebrary, Inc, 2006Book | Essential | Chapters 2-3
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 140-148
'Agricultural techniques' - B. Hruška, 2007Chapter | Further
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Further
'The world of Babylonian countrysides' - S. Richardson, 2007Chapter | Further
'Sumerian agriculture and land management' - M. Widell, 2013Chapter | Further
Interpretation of textual data (4 items)
'Agriculture and accountability in Ancient Mesopotamia' - B. Foster, 1986Chapter | Further
Quantifying Sumerian agriculture-some seeds of doubt and hope - P. Halstead, 1990Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
The agricultural cycle and the calendar at pre-Sargonic Girsu. - P. J. LaPlaca, 1990Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Cereal cultivation in the Ur III period - K. Maekawa, 1984Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Irrigation (7 items)
Irrigation in lowland Mesopotamia. - M. P. Charles, 1988Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Using Shuttle Radar Topography to map ancient water channels in Mesopotamia - CarrieHritz, T J Wilkinson, Jun 2006
Article | Further
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Canals and bunds, ancient and modern - W. Pemberton, J. N. Postgate, R. F. Smyth, 1988Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Salt, Seed, and Yields in Sumerian Agriculture. A Critique of the Theory of ProgressiveSalinization: - Marvin A. Powell, 1985
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Rivers, watercourses and irrigation ditches and other matters concerning irrigation basedon Old Babylonian sources (2000-1600 B.C.). - J. Renger, 1990
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Notes on the irrigation system in third millennium southern Babylonia - P. Steinkeller, 1988Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Hydraulic landscapes and irrigation systems of Sumer - T. J. Wilkinson, 2013Article | Further
Land tenure (2 items)
'Private land ownership and its relation to "God" and the "State" in Sumer and Akkad - D.O. Edzard, 1996
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Land-tenure conditions in third-millennium Babylonia: the problem of regional variation' -P. Steinkeller, 1999
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Archaeological studies (10 items)
'The imprint of living in a Mesopotamian city: questions and answers' - W. Matthews, J. N.Postgate, S. Payne, M. P. Charles, K. Dobney, 1994
Chapter | Further
Early Dynastic III Animal Utilization in Lagash: A Report on the Fauna of Tell Al-Hiba - KarenMudar, 1982
Article | Further
Archaeozoology of the Near EastJournal | Further
Excavations at Tell Brak: Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian regional centre,1994-1996 - Roger Matthews, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, BritishSchool of Archaeology in Iraq, 2003
Book | Further | (Xeroxes of articles by S. College on archaeobotany and K. Dobney onarchaeozoology in Reading Room)
'Landscape and human-environment interaction in the Middle Habur Drainage from theNeolithic Period to the Bronze Age' - J. McCorriston, 1998
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
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'Pastoral nomadism in ancient Western Asia' - G. M. Schwartz, 1995Chapter | Further
'Rural approaches to social complexity' - G. M. Schwartz, S. E. Falconer, 1994Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities: An Interim Report on the 1992-1993Excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey - Gil J. Stein, Reinhard Bernbeck, Cheryl Coursey, AugustaMcMahon, Naomi F. Miller, Adnan Misir, Jeffrey Nicola, Holly Pittman, Susan Pollock andHenry Wright, 1996
Article | Further
The Structure and Dynamics of Dry-Farming States in Upper Mesopotamia [and Commentsand Reply] - T. J. Wilkinson, John Bintliff, Hans H. Curvers, Paul Halstead, Phillip L. Kohl,Mario Liverani, Joy McCorriston, Joan Oates, Glenn M. Schwartz, Ingolf Thuesen, HarveyWeiss and Marie-Agnes Courty, 1994
Article | Further
'Environment, economy and subsistence on the threshold of urban emergence in NorthernMesopotamia' - M. Zeder, 1998
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Lecture 4. Resources, production, trade and exchange (40 items)
The cities and villages of Lower Mesopotamia relied on high agricultural yields to sustainhigh population densities through the third and second millennia BC, which enabled themto engage in networks of regional and trans-regional trade and exchange with theirneighbours. In this session we examine the natural resources of Mesopotamia andadjacent regions, and we review the mechanisms by which Mesopotamia was able tobenefit from specialised production and its multiple connections across the region.
Resources (8 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | Read: pp. 39-44 and index production, specialisation.
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | Trade: 206-223, craft and labour: 225-240.
The Uruk world system: the dynamics of expansion of early Mesopotamian civilization -Guillermo Algaze, 1993
Book | Further
Initial Social Complexity in Southwestern Asia - by Guillermo Algaze, 2001Article | Further
Artefacts of complexity: tracking the Uruk in the Near East - J.N. Postgate, 2002Book | Further
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Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further | Chapters 12-13
Uruk Mesopotamia & its neighbours: cross-cultural interactions in the era of stateformation - Mitchell S. Rothman, 2001
Book | Further
'The administrative and economic organization of the Ur III state: the core and theperiphery' - P. Steinkeller, 1991
Chapter | Further
Art and craft specialisation, and the study of materials (19 items)
Art in the ancient world: a handbook of styles and forms - Pierre Amiet, 1981Book | Further
Art of the first cities: the third millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus - JoanAruz, Ronald Wallenfels, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), c2003
Book | Further
The art and architecture of the ancient Orient - Henri Frankfort, Donald Matthews, MichaelRoaf, 1996
Book | Further
The art of the ancient Near East - Seton Lloyd, 1961Book | Further
Chemical characterisation of local Anatolian and Uruk sealings from Hacınebi - M. J.Blackman, 1999
Article | Further
The Standardization Hypothesis and Ceramic Mass Production: Technological,Compositional, and Metric Indexes of Craft Specialization at Tell Leilan, Syria - M. JamesBlackman, Gil J. Stein and Pamela B. Vandiver, 1993
Article | Further
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Read: Chapter 8.
Physical and Chemical analyses of soft stone vessels from southwest Asia - P. L. Kohl, G.Harbottle, E. V. Sayre, 1979-08
Article | Further
'Artisans and artists in Ancient Western Asia' - D. Matthews, 2001Chapter | Further
Ebla: Crafts and Power in an Emergent State of Third Millennium BC Syria - StefaniaMazzoni, 2004 Volume: 16 Issue: 2 Page: 173
Article | Further
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Ancient mesopotamian materials and industries: the archaeological evidence - P.R.S.Moorey, 1994
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Household Production at the Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh, Iraq - Susan Pollock, Melody Popeand Cheryl Coursey, 1996
Article | Further
Mesopotamian Petrology: Stages in the Classification of the Material World - NicholasPostgate, 1997-10
Article | Further
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further | Chapters 5-7.
Bulk stable carbon and deuterium isotope analyses of bitumen artifacts from HacinebiTepe, Turkey: reconstructing broad economic patterns of the Uruk expansion - MarkSchwartz, David Hollander, 2008-12
Article | Further
'Producers, patrons and prestige: craft specialists and emergent elite in Mesopotamia from5500-3100BC' - G. J. Stein, 1996
Chapter | Further
The Emergence of Complex Metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau: Escaping the LevantineParadigm - Christopher Peter Thornton, 2009-9
Article | Further
'‘Surpassing work’: mastery of materials and the value of skilled production in ancientSumer' - I. J. Winter, 2003
Chapter | Further
'Sumerian and Akkadian industries: crafting textiles' - R. P. Wright, 2013Chapter | Further
Trade and trans-regional interactions (12 items)
'Trade in the Sumerian world' - H. Crawford, 2013Chapter | Essential
Patterns of trade in third-millennium BC Mesopotamia and Iran - T Potts, 01/02/1993 Volume: 24 Issue:
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Article | Essential
'Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia' - C. Bachhuber, 2013Chapter | Further
'The Sumerians and the Gulf' - R. Carter, 2013Chapter | Further
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Chapter 9.
'The archaeological evidence for international commerce: public and/or private enterprisein Mesopotamia' - C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, 1996
Chapter | Further
Copper and Complexity: Iran and Mesopotamia in the Fourth Millennium B.C. - RogerMatthews and Hassan Fazeli, 2004
Article | Further
Mesopotamia and the East: an archaeological and historical study of foreign relations ca.3400-2000 BC - Timothy Potts, 1994
Book | Further | Particularly the conclusions, 277-290.
Ancient civilization and trade - J.A. Sabloff, 1975Book
Rethinking world-systems: diasporas, colonies, and interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia - GilStein, 1999
Book | Further
'Egypt and Mesopotamia' - A. Stevenson, 2013Chapter | Further
'Mesopotamia, Meluhha, and those in between' - C. P. Thornton, 2013Chapter | Further
Lecture 5. Seals, sealings and society (20 items)
The use of seals is one of the defining characteristics of ancient Mesopotamia, but how didthey fit within systems of administration and control that also involved writing? In thisclass we consider the multiple ways in which stamp seals and cylinder seals wereemployed, and we situate their usage within broader economic and social patterns andnetworks.
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Seals and sealing (19 items)
'Seals and sealing in the Sumerian world' - H. Pittman, 2013Chapter | Essential
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Essential | Chapter 11.
First impressions - Dominique Collon, 1987Book | Further
'How seals were worn and carried' - D. Collon, 2001Chapter | Further
Arslantepe--cretulae: an early centralised administrative system before writing - M.Frangipane, Piera Ferioli, J. Blackman, Centro internazionale di ricerche archeologicheantropologiche e storiche, Missione archeologica italiana nell'Anatolia Orientale, 2007
Book | Further
'Sealing practices in Ur III Nippur' - A. Hattori, 2001Chapter
Feasts as a social dynamic in Prehistoric Western Asia - three case studies from Syria andAnatolia - Barbara Helwing, 2003
Article | Further
Fragments of Officialdom from Fara - R. J. Matthews, 1991Article | Further
Cities, seals and writing: archaic impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur - Roger Matthews,©1993
Book | Further
'Image and function in early Ninevite 5 administration' - R. Matthews, 1998Chapter | Further
'A chiefdom on the northern plains' - R. Matthews, 2003Chapter | Further
The glazed steatite glyptic style - Holly Pittman, 1994Book | Further
'Imagery in administrative context: Susiana and the west in the fourth millennium BC' - H.Pittman, 2013
Chapter | Further
'Seals and sealings at Tell Asmar: a new look at an Ur III to early Old Babylonian palace' -C. D. Reichel, 2001
Chapter | Further
'Impact of empire' - C. Steele, 2003Chapter | Further
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'Introduction: glyptic, history, and historiography' - I. J. Winter, 2001Chapter | Further
Sealings as Artifacts of Institutional Administration in Ancient Mesopotamia - Richard L.Zettler, 1987
Article | Further
'Dynastic change and institutional administration in southern Mesopotamia in the laterthird millennium BCE: evidence from seals and sealing practices' - R. L. Zettler, 2007
Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Dynastic change and institutional administration in southern Mesopotamia in the laterthird millennium BCE: evidence from seals and sealing practices' - R. L. Zettler, 2007
Chapter | Further
Lecture 6. Socio-politics and the nature of power, city-states andempire (44 items)
Complex societies developed very early on in Mesopotamia. By the early third millenniumBC multiple city-states co-existed on the Lower Mesopotamian plains, sometimes inconflict, sometimes in harmony. In the later third millennium BC, we can trace thedevelopment of imperial modes of power across large regions of Mesopotamia andbeyond. In this session we will examine the socio-political structures of Mesopotamiansocieties, and the manifold ways in which power was expressed and instutionalised,including through the issue of early kingship.
Socio-politics, city-states, empires (31 items)
The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches - Roger Matthews, 2003Book | Essential | Chapters 4-5. Also available online as as ebook - see below.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches - Roger Matthews, 2013Book | Essential | Chapters 4-5.
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | Chapters 4 and 7.
'Southern Mesopotamia' - J. Ur, 2012Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Southern Mesopotamia' - J. Ur, 2012Chapter | Essential
'Northern Mesopotamia' - T. Matney, 2012Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Northern Mesopotamia' - T. Matney, 2012Chapter | Further
Archaeologies of complexity - Robert Chapman, 2003
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Archaeologies of complexity - Robert Chapman, 2003Book | Further
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies - Elizabeth DeMarrais, Luis Jaime Castilloand Timothy Earle, 1996
Article | Further
'The state: the process of state formation as seen from Mesopotamia' - J. D. Forest, 2005Chapter | Further
How chiefs come to power: the political economy in prehistory - Timothy K. Earle, 1997Book | Further
Archaic states - Gary M. Feinman, Joyce Marcus, School of American Research, 1998Book | Further
The organization of power: aspects of bureaucracy in the ancient Near East - McGuireGibson, Robert D. Biggs, University of Chicago. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, 1991
Book | Further
Akkad: the first world empire : structure, ideology, traditions - Mario Liverani, Akkad : ilprimo impero universale : strutture, ideologia, tradizioni" (Conference), 1993
Book | Further
'Imperialism' - M. Liverani, 2005Chapter | Further
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, 2006Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Uruk: the first city - Mario Liverani, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop, ebrary, Inc, 2006Book | Further
Cities, seals and writing: archaic impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur - Roger Matthews,©1993
Book | Further
'The Akkadian period: empire, environment, and imagination' - A. McMahon, 2012Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'The Akkadian period: empire, environment, and imagination' - A. McMahon, 2012Chapter | Further
Uruk Mesopotamia & its neighbours: cross-cultural interactions in the era of stateformation - Mitchell S. Rothman, 2001
Book | Further
'Rural approaches to social complexity' - G. M. Schwartz, 1994Chapter | Further
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The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex polities - Adam T.Smith, c2003
Book | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex polities - Adam T.Smith, ebrary, Inc, c2003
Book | Further
'Structural parameters and sociocultural factors in the economic organisation of NorthMesopotamian urbanism in the third millennium BC' - G. Stein, 2004
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Chiefdoms and early states in the Near East: the organizational dynamics of complexity -Gil Stein, Mitchell S. Rothman, 1994
Book | Further
'Early political development in Mesopotamia and the origins of the Sargonic empire' - P.Steinkeller, 1993
Chapter | Further
'On rulers, priests and sacred marriage: tracing the evolution of early Sumerian kingship' -P. Steinkeller, 1999
Chapter | Further
'Archaic city seals and the question of early Babylonian unity' - P. Steinkeller, 2002Chapter | Further
The Origins of cities in dry-farming Syria and Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C. -Harvey Weiss, 1986
Book | Further
Kingship (12 items)
The mortal kings of Ur: a short century of divine rule in ancient Mesopotamia - P.Michalowski, 2008
Article | Essential
Royal deification: an ambiguation mechanism for the creation of courtier subjectivities - R.Bernbeck, 2008
Article | Further
'Dynastic change and institutional administration in southern Mesopotamia in the laterthird millennium BCE: evidence from seals and sealing practices' - H. E. Crawford, 2007
Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Dynastic change and institutional administration in southern Mesopotamia in the laterthird millennium BCE: evidence from seals and sealing practices' - H. E. Crawford, 2007
Chapter | Further
Royal statuary of early dynastic Mesopotamia - Gianni Marchesi, Nicoláo Marchetti,Penelope-Jane Watson, 2011
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Royal statuary of early dynastic Mesopotamia - Gianni Marchesi, Nicoláo Marchetti,Penelope-Jane Watson, ebrary, Inc, 2011
Book | Further
'Akkad and agency, archaeology and annals' - A. Porter, 2010Chapter | Further
The king is dead, long live the king: the last days of the Šu-Šin cult at Ešnunna and itsaftermath - C. Reichel, 2008
Article | Further
The divine prototypes - G. J. Selz, 2008Article | Further
'Kings and queens: representation and reality' - C. Suter, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Kings and queens: representation and reality' - C. Suter, 2013Chapter | Further
Touched by the gods: visual evidence for the divine status of rulers in the ancient NearEast - I. J. Winter, 2008
Article | Further
Lecture 7. Urbanism: concepts of space and households (50 items)
Mesopotamian civilisation was essentially an urban civilisation, comprising large citieswhich controlled extensive tracts of adjacent country. How were these cities structured,and how was space designed, constructed and utilised in the daily activities of complexcity life? In this class we will examine the layout and roles of Mesopotamian cities, inparticular through detailed study of individual houses and households.
Urbanism, architecture and society (22 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 117-148.
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | pp. 73-87
The evolution of urban society: early Mesopotamia and prehispanic Mexico - RobertMcCormick Adams, 1966
Book | Further
Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization: the evolution of an urban landscape -Guillermo Algaze, 2008
Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization: the evolution of an urban landscape -Guillermo Algaze, ebrary, Inc, 2008
Book | Further
'Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia' - E. B. Banning, 1997Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Chapters 4-5
'Architecture in the Old Babylonian period,' - H. Crawford, 2007Chapter | Further
'The ground plans of archaic states' - K. V. Flannery, 1998Chapter | Further
The cattlepen and the sheepfold: cities, temples, and pastoral power in ancientMesopotamia - O. Harmanşah, 2013
Article | Further
Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north - Joan Oates, Augusta McMahon,Philip Karsgaard, Salam Al Quntar, Jason Ur, Sep 2007
Article | Further
'Ordering the world: perceptions of architecture, space and time' - M. Parker Pearson, C.Richards, 1994
Chapter | Further
Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations: weaving togethersociety - Anne Porter, 2013
Book | Further
Planning for the sun: urban forms as a Mesopotamian response to the sun - MaryShepperson, 2009
Article | Further
'City and countryside in third-millennium southern Babylonia' - P. Steinkeller, 2007Chapter | Further
'The constraints on state and urban form in ancient Mesopotamia' - E. C. Stone, 1999Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Mesopotamian cities and countryside' - E. C. Stone, 2005Chapter | Further
'The Mesopotamian urban experience' - E. C. Stone, 2007Chapter | Further | (Xerox in the Reading Room)
'The organisation of a Sumerian town: the physical remains of ancient social systems' - E.C. Stone, 2013
Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
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'The organisation of a Sumerian town: the physical remains of ancient social systems' - E.C. Stone, 2013
Chapter | Further
The ancient Mesopotamian city - Marc Van de Mieroop, 1999Book | Further
'The government of an ancient Mesopotamian city: what we know and why we know solittle' - M. Van De Mieroop, 1999
Chapter | Further
Households (12 items)
Theory and practice in the study of Mesopotamian domestic space - Paolo Brusasco, Mar2004
Article | Essential
The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches - Roger Matthews, 2003Book | Essential | Chapter 6. Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches - Roger Matthews, 2013Book | Essential | Chapter 6.
The archaeology of household activities - Penelope M. Allison, 1999Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The archaeology of household activities - Penelope Mary Allison, ebrary, Inc, 1999Book | Further
'Everyday life in Sumer' - P. Collins, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Everyday life in Sumer' - P. Collins, 2013Chapter | Further
'The Uruk phenomenon: a view from the household' - C. Foster, 2012Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'The Uruk phenomenon: a view from the household' - C. Foster, 2012Chapter | Further
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further
Microdebris analysis in Early Bronze Age Mesopotamian households - Rainville, Lynn, Jun2000
Article | Further
Investigating upper Mesopotamian households using micro-archaeological techniques -Lynn Rainville, 2005
Book | Further
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Archaeological case-studies (15 items)
Abu Salabikh (2 items)
'The imprint of living in a Mesopotamian city: questions and answers' - W. Matthews, J. N.Postgate, S. Payne, M. P. Charles, K. Dobney, 1994
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
How Many Sumerians per Hectare? — Probing the Anatomy of an Early City - NicholasPostgate, 1994-4
Article | Further
Diyala (2 items)
Non-Religious Residential Settlement Patterning in the Late Early Dynastic of the DiyalaRegion
Article | Further
Functional Analysis of Elite Residences in the Late Early Dynastic of the Diyala Region:House D and the Walled Quarter at Khafajah and the Palaces at Tell Asmar
Article | Further
Mashkan-shapir (3 items)
The Tell Abu Duwari Project, Iraq, 1987 - Elizabeth C. Stone, 1990Article | Further
The Tell Abu Duwari Project, 1988-1990 - Elizabeth C. Stone and Paul Zimansky, 1994Article | Further
The anatomy of a Mesopotamian city: survey and soundings at Mashkan-shapir - ElizabethCaecilia Stone, Paul E. Zimansky, Piotr Steinkeller, Vincent Pigott, Lisa A. Wells, TonyWilkinson, ebrary, Inc, 2004
Book | Further
Nippur (3 items)
'On the quantitative derivation of household spatial organization from archaeologicalresidues in ancient Mesopotamia' - P. Gnivecki, 1987
Chapter | Further
Texts, Architecture and Ethnographic Analogy: Patterns of Residence in Old BabylonianNippur - Elizabeth C. Stone and Elizabeth T. Stone, 1981
Article | Further
Nippur Neighbourhoods - E. C. Stone, 1987Document | Further
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Ur (1 items)
Establishing a social typology or Ur houses. - P. Brusasco, 1999-2000Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading room)
North Mesopotamia (1 items)
'Spatial analysis and social structure at Tell al-Raqa'i - G. M. Schwartz, E. E. Klucas, 1998Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Ebla (2 items)
Ebla and its landscape: early state formation in the ancient Near East - 2013Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Ebla and its landscape: early state formation in the ancient Near East - Paolo Matthiae,Nicoláo Marchetti, ebrary, Inc, 2013
Book | Further
Saar, Bahrain (1 items)
Microstratigraphic Traces of Site Formation Processes and Human Activities - W. Matthews,C. A. I. French, T. Lawrence, D. F. Cutler and M. K. Jones, 1997
Article | Further
Lecture 8. Ritual: temple and household, and death and burial (66 items)
Mesopotamian societies placed enormous emphasis on cult and ritual. Deities wereregarded as active social agents who needed to be constantly respected and tended to,with appropriate rites and accommodation in the form of sacred buildings or temples. Inthis session we will examine the textual and archaeological evidence relating toMesopotamian religious beliefs and practices, including attitudes towards death and thetreatment of the human body after death.
Temple and household (2 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 186-193.
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | pp. 260-274.
Ritual (5 items)
Ritual theory, ritual practice - Catherine M. Bell, ebrary, Inc, 2009
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Book | Further
The anthropology of religion: an introduction - Fiona Bowie, 2000Book | Further
Ritual and domestic life in prehistoric Europe - Richard Bradley, 2005Book | Further
Ancient goddesses: the myths and the evidence - Lucy Goodison, Christine Morris, 1998Book | Further
Archaeology, ritual, religion - Timothy Insoll, 2004Book | Further
Collections of texts and references (5 items)
Gods, demons, and symbols of ancient Mesopotamia: an illustrated dictionary - Jeremy A.Black, Anthony Green, British Museum, 1998
Book | Further
Myths from Mesopotamia: creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others - Stephanie Dalley,2000
Book | Further
Sumerian gods and their representations - I. L. Finkel, M. J. Geller, 1997Book | Further
Before the muses: an anthology of Akkadian literature - Benjamin R. Foster, Ã2005Book | Further
Official cult and popular religion in the ancient Near East: papers of the First Colloquium onthe Ancient Near East-- the City and its Life, held at the Middle Eastern Culture Center inJapan (Mitaka, Tokyo), March 20-22, 1992 - Eiko Matsushima, Colloquium on the AncientNear East-- the City and its Life, 1993
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Textual evidence (15 items)
Religion in ancient Mesopotamia - Jean Bottero, c2001Book | Further
Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece -Jean Bottero, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, c2000
Book | Further
The Cuneiform Conception of Celestial Space and Time - David Brown, 2000-4Article | Further
'The Mesopotamian cult statue: a sacramental encounter with divinity' - M. B. Dick, 2005Chapter | Further
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'Sumerian mythology' - B. R. Foster, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Sumerian mythology' - B. R. Foster, 2013Chapter | Further
'The role and function of goddesses in Mesopotamia' - B. Groneberg, 2007Chapter | Further
Mesopotamian cosmic geography - Wayne Horowitz, 1998Book | Further
The treasures of darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion - Thorkild Jacobsen, 1976Book | Further
Sumerian mythology - Kramer, Samuel Noah, 1997Book | Further
'The Sumerian sacred marriage: texts and images' - K. McCaffrey, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'The Sumerian sacred marriage: texts and images' - K. McCaffrey, 2013Chapter | Further
Early Mesopotamian incantations and rituals - J. J. A. van Dijk, M. I. Hussey, Albrecht Götze,Yale Babylonian Collection, 1985
Book | Further
'In the service of the gods: the ministering clergy' - J. G. Westenholz, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'In the service of the gods: the ministering clergy' - J. G. Westenholz, 2013Chapter | Further
Archaeological evidence (15 items)
'Depictions of priests and priestesses' - D. Collon, 1999Chapter | Further
Sumer and the Sumerians - Harriet Crawford, 1991Book | Further | Chapter 7.
The lives of Sumerian sculpture: an archaeology of the early dynastic temple - Jean M.Evans, 2012
Book | Further
Les premiers temples de Mésapotamie: 4e et 3e millénairies - Jean-Daniel Forest, 1999Book | Further
The 6G Ash-tip and its contents: cultic and administrative discard from the temple -Anthony Green, 1993
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'Myth in art' - A. R. Green, 1997Chapter | Further
'Seven shrines of Subartu' - R. Matthews, 2002Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
'Activities inside the temple: the evidence of microstratigraphy' - W. Matthews, D. Cutler,M. K. Jones, C. A. I. French, T. Lawrence, 1997
Book | Further
The Terracotta Plaques from Kish and Hursagkalama, c. 1850 to 1650 B.C. - P. R. S.Moorey, 1975
Article | Further
Idols of the people: miniature images of clay in the ancient Near East - P.R.S. Moorey, 2003Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Idols of the people: miniature images of clay in the ancient Near East - P.R.S. Moorey,British Academy, 2003
Book | Further
'Text and figure in ancient Mesopotamia: match and mismatch' - J. N. Postgate, 1994Chapter | Further
Mesopotamian civilization: the material foundations - Daniel T. Potts, 1997Book | Further | Chapters 8 and 10.
Chariots of the Gods in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia ( c. 2000–1600 BC) - Elizabeth C.Stone, 1993-4
Article | Further
The golden leaves of Ur - M. Tengberg, H-P. Francfort, D. T. Potts, Dec 2008Article | Further
Death and burial (9 items)
Ancient Mesopotamia: the Eden that never was - Susan Pollock, 1999Book | Essential | pp. 196-217.
'Death and burial' - H. Vogel, 2013Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Death and burial' - H. Vogel, 2013Chapter | Further
The archaeology of death in the ancient Near East - Stuart Campbell, Anthony Green,University of Manchester, Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, ©1995
Book | Further | (Xerox of article in Reading Room)
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Death and dying in the Neolithic Near East - Karina Croucher, 2012Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Death and dying in the Neolithic Near East - Karina Croucher, 2012Book | Further
The topography of remembrance: the dead, tradition and collective memory inMesopotamia - Gerdien Jonker, 1995
Book | Further
The archaeology of death and burial - Michael Parker Pearson, 2003Book | Further
Reading the body: representations and remains in the archaeological record - Alison E.Rautman, 2000
Book | Further
Case-studies (14 items)
'The transition between two opposing forms of power at Arslantepe (Malatya) at thebeginning of the 3rd millennium' - M. Frangipane, 2001
Article | Further
New Symbols of a New Power in A "Royal" Tomb from 3 000 BC Arslantepe, Malatya(Trukey) - Marcella Frangipane, Gian Maria Di Nocera, Andreas Hauptmann, PaolaMorbidelli, Alberto M. Palmieri, Laura Sadori, Michael Schultz and Tyede Schmidt-Schultz,2001
Article | Further
'Sumerian funerary rituals in context' - D. Katz, 2007Chapter | Further
Graves 1 to 99 - Harriet P. Martin, Jane Killick, J. N. Postgate, 1985Book | Further
'The female kings of Ur' - K. McCaffrey, 2008Chapter | Further
Of Priestesses, Princes and Poor Relations: The Dead in the Royal Cemetery of Ur - SusanPollock, 1991-10
Article | Further
'Death of a household' - S. Pollock, 2007Chapter | Further
Early Dynastic Burial Customs at Abu Salabikh - J. N. PostgateArticle | Further
The Dynamics of Death: Ancestors, Pastoralism, and the Origins of a Third-Millennium Cityin Syria - Anne Porter, 2002
Article | Further
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A Third-Millennium B.C. Elite Tomb and Other New Evidence from Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria- Glenn M. Schwartz, Hans H. Curvers, Sally Dunham and Barbara Stuart, 2003
Article | Further
'Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria: “royal” tombs at Umm el-Marra' -G. M. Schwartz, 2007
Chapter | Further
'Reading ritual in the archaeological record' - I Winter, 1999Chapter | Further
Ur 'of the Chaldees' - Leonard Woolley, P.R.S. Moorey, 1982Book | Further
Treasures from the royal tombs of Ur - Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, Donald P. Hansen,Holly Pittman, University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,c1998
Book | Further
Lecture 9. Social identity and gender (43 items)
Societies are constituted by people and their actions. What factors determined and shapedhow people could behave in ancient Mesopotamia? Did everyone buy into officialideologies, and how flexible were social codes of conduct? We examine the components ofMesopotamian societies, addressing issues such as family, household, slavery, gender, andlaw codes, including the famous law code of Hammurabi, king of Babylon.
'Introduction: Temporal dimensions of gender in ancient Near Eastern archaeology' - D.Bolger, 2008
Chapter | Essential
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential
Socialisation (3 items)
Outline of a theory of practice - Pierre Bourdieu, 1977Book | Further
About the house: Lévi-Strauss and beyond - Janet Carsten, Stephen Hugh-Jones, 1995Book | Further | (Introduction. Xerox in the Reading Room)
'Ordering the world: perceptions of architecture, space and time' - M. Parker Pearson, C.Richards, 1994
Chapter | Further
Mesopotamia: household and family (3 items)
'Household and family in early Mesopotamia' - I. Gelb, 1979
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Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Daily life in ancient Mesopotamia - Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat, 1998Book | Further
'Private life in Mesopotamia' - M. Stol, 2001Chapter | Further
Slavery (2 items)
'A life-course approach to household slaves in the late third millennium B.C' - L. Culbertson, 2011
Chapter | Further
'Slavery in private households toward the end of the third millennium B.C' - H. Neumann,2011
Chapter | Further
Gender (21 items)
Women and agency: a survey from Late Uruk to the end of Ur III - J. M. Asher-Greve, 2013Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Women and agency: a survey from Late Uruk to the end of Ur III' - J. M. Asher-Greve, 2013Chapter | Essential
Women of Babylon: gender and representation in Mesopotamia - Zainab Bahrani, 2001Book | Further
Gender through time in the ancient Near East - Diane R. Bolger, 2008Book | Further | See especially Chapter 10 ‘Gendered fields in Near Eastern
archaeology’
Images of women in antiquity - Averil Cameron, Amélie Kuhrt, 1993Book | Further
Death and dying in the Neolithic Near East - Karina Croucher, 2012Book | Further | Chapter 5 ‘Gender in the Neolithic Near East’. Also available online as
an ebook - see below.
Death and dying in the Neolithic Near East - Karina Croucher, 2012Book | Further | Chapter 5 ‘Gender in the Neolithic Near East’.
Gender and archaeology: contesting the past - Roberta Gilchrist, 1999Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
Gender and archaeology: contesting the past - Roberta Gilchrist, 1999Book
Gender and aging in Mesopotamia: the Gilgamesh epic and other ancient literature -
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Rivkah Harris, 2000Book | Further
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture - Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, 2011Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture - Karen Radner, Eleanor Robson, 2011Book
Female Weavers and their Children in Lagash-Pre-Sargonic and UrIII - K. MaekawaArticle | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
Rituals of War: the Body and Violence in Mesopotamia, by Zainab Bahrani, 2008. Brooklyn(NY): Zone Books; ISBN 978-1-890951-84-9 hardback £24.95 & US32.95; 276 pp., 40 figs. -Carolyn Nakamura, 2009-10
Article | Further
'Women in a men's world: images of Sumerian women' - S. Pollock, 1991Chapter | Further
'And they said, let us make gods in our image: gendered ideologies in AncientMesopotamia' - S. Pollock, R. Bernbeck, 2000
Chapter | Further
'Women and gender in Babylonia' - L. D. Steele, 2007Chapter | Further
'Compensation of craft workers and officials in the Ur III period' - H. Waatzold, 1987Chapter | Further
'Sex, rhetoric and the public monument: the alluring body of Naram-Sin of Agade' - I. J.Winter, 1996
Chapter | Further
'Technology, class and gender: worlds of difference in Ur III Mesopotamia' - R. P. Wright,1991
Chapter | Further
Trade, Women, Class, and Society in Ancient Western Asia [and Comments and Reply] -Allen Zagarell, B. Brentjes, Michael L. Ingraham, A. Bernard Knapp, C. C.Lamberg-Karlovsky, Randall H. McGuire, Karen Brodkin Sacks, Elizabeth C. Stone, Rita P.Wright and L. M. Young, 1986
Article | Further
Law, law codes, and the law code of Hammurabi (9 items)
Early Mesopotamia: society and economy at the dawn of history - J.N. Postgate, 1994Book | Essential | pp. 275-302.
'Object agency? Spatial perspective, social relations, and the stele of Hammurabi' - M. H.Feldman, 2010
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Chapter | Further
'Legal and social institutions of Ancient Mesopotamia' - S. Greengus, 2001Chapter | Further
Ancient Near Eastern texts: relating to the Old Testament - James B. Pritchard, 1969Book | Further
King Hammurabi of Babylon: a biography - Marc Van de Mieroop, ©2005Book | Further
'Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code' - M. Van De Mieroop,2013
Chapter | Further | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Democracy and the rule of law, the assembly, and the first law code' - M. Van De Mieroop,2013
Chapter | Further
'Introduction: the character of ancient Near Eastern law' - R. Westbrook, 2003Chapter | Further
Early ancient Near Eastern law: a history of its beginnings : the early dynastic andSargonic periods - Claus Wilcke, ebrary, Inc, c2007
Book | Further
Ethnicity (2 items)
'Thinking about ethnicity in Mesopotamian archaeology and history' - G. Emberling, N.Yoffee, 1999
Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
The archaeology of ethnicity: constructing identities in the past and present - S. Jones,1997
Book | Further
Lecture 10. Legacies of Mesopotamia and the archaeology of Iraqtoday (30 items)
Why is the study of ancient Mesopotamia important in today's world, and what lessonshave we learnt through the course of this module? What are the legacies of ancientMesopotamia that have helped to shape the world in which we now live? Finally, what isthe current status of archaeology in and around the modern lands that make upMesopotamia, above all in Iraq?
Legacies (7 items)
'Ancient Mesopotamia in classical Greek and Hellenistic thought' - A. Kuhrt, 2001Chapter | Essential
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The legacy of Mesopotamia - Stephanie Dalley, 1998Book | Further
The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: an elusive world wonder traced -Stephanie Dalley, 2013
Book | Further
Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece -Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, c2000
Book | Further
Babylon: myth and reality - Irving L. Finkel, M.J. Seymour, John Curtis, British Museum,Musée du Louvre, Réunion des musées nationaux (France), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,2008
Book | Further
Greek myths and Mesopotamia: parallels and influence in the Homeric hymns and Hesiod -Charles Penglase, 1994
Book | Further
'The first civilizations in the Middle East' - J. N. Postgate, 2002Chapter | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
History of Iraq (1 items)
A history of Iraq - Charles Tripp, 2007Book | Further
Archaeology of Iraq today (21 items)
'Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past - whose game is itanyway?' - Z. Bahrani, 1998
Chapter | Essential | Also available online as an ebook - see below.
'Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past - whose game is itanyway?' - Z. Bahrani, 1998
Chapter | Essential
The destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq - Peter Stone, Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, RobertFisk, 2008
Book | Essential | Chapter 1. Introduction
The archaeology of Mesopotamia: theories and approaches - Roger Matthews, 2003Book | Essential | Chapter 7. Also available online as an ebook - see below.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches - Roger Matthews, 2013Book | Essential | Chapter 7.
The Archaeological Heritage of Iraq in Historical Perspective - Abbas Al-Hussainy, RogerMatthews, 2008-05
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Article | Further
Reclaiming a plundered past: archaeology and nation building in modern Iraq - MagnusThorkell Bernhardsson, 2005
Book | Further | (Xerox of conclusions, 211-21, in Reading Room)
The Casualties of War: The Truth About the Iraq Museum - Matthew Bogdanos, 01/07/2005 Volume: 109 Issue: 3 Page: 477
Article | Further
'The site of Babylon today' - J. E. Curtis, 2008Chapter | Further
Iraq, stewardship and ‘the record’: An ethical crisis for archaeology - Yannis Hamilakis,2003-01
Article | Further
'Orientalism and Near Eastern archaeology' - M. T. Larsen, 1988Chapter | Further
'2084: ancient propaganda and historical criticism' - M. Liverani, 1996Chapter | Further
Forum: year zero for the archaeology of Iraq - Roger Matthews, Forum paper by R.Matthews, with responses from H. Crawford, L. Al-Gailani Werr, S. Labadi, M. Van DeMieroop and J. Simmons, 2003
Article | Further | (Xerox in Reading Room)
By the waters of Babylon - R. Matthews, 2006Article | Further
The ethics of archaeology: philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice -Christopher Scarre, Geoffrey Scarre, 2006
Book | Further
The rape of Mesopotamia: behind the looting of the Iraq Museum - Lawrence Rothfield,
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2009Book | Further | Also available online as an ebook -see below.
The rape of Mesopotamia: behind the looting of the Iraq Museum - Lawrence Rothfield,2009
Book | Further
Ancient Mesopotamia and Modern Iraq in the British Press, 1980–2003 - by MichaelSeymour, 2004
Article | Further
The looting of the Iraq Museum: Thoughts on archaeology in a time of crisis - Susan Pollock, 2003
Article | Further
Archaeologies of the Middle East: critical perspectives - Susan Pollock, Reinhard Bernbeck,2005
Book | Further
The identification and protection of cultural heritage during the Iraq conflict: A peculiarlyEnglish tale - Stone, Peter, 2005
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Finally: support your local Near Eastern societies (7 items)
Please consider joining and thereby supporting the work of at least one of the major Britishinstitutes and societies working in the Near East today. They each produce an annualjournal as well as newsletters and other publications. They organise lectures on relevanttopics, usually held in London, and they have some funding to help students travel andstudy in the modern countries of the Near East.
More information can be found at their websites:
British Institute for the Study of IraqWebsite
British Institute at AnkaraWebsite
Council for British Research in the LevantWebsite
British Institute of Persian StudiesWebsite
British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA)Website
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