A thousand years of farming late Chalcolithic agricultural practices at Tell Brak in northern Mesopotamia
A thousand years of farming: late Chalcolithic agricultural practices at Tell Brak in northern Mesopotamia

The Late Chalcolithic is a period of far-reaching changes in many aspects of life in Mesopotamia. On the southern alluvial plain (present day Iraq) the first city states appear, among them the city of Uruk, which grows to become the largest of the cities in the south. The growth of cities coincides...

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1. Verfasser: Hald, Mette Marie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [u.a.] Archaeopress 2008
Schriftenreihe:British archaeological reports / International series 1880
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 4000 v. Chr.-3000 v. Chr.
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Agriculture, Prehistoric > Syria > Birak, Tall
Excavations (Archaeology) > Syria > Birak, Tall
Landwirtschaft
Syrien
Birak, Tall (Syria) > Antiquities
Tell Brak
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Zusammenfassung:The Late Chalcolithic is a period of far-reaching changes in many aspects of life in Mesopotamia. On the southern alluvial plain (present day Iraq) the first city states appear, among them the city of Uruk, which grows to become the largest of the cities in the south. The growth of cities coincides with evidence for elaborate ritual building complexes, an increasingly class-stratified society, industrial specialisation, and multi-tiered administration, which includes the invention of writing. The present volume focuses on the agricultural developments in Late Chalcolithic northern Mesopotamia from the perspective of a major settlement in the region, Tell Brak in modern northeast Syria. Agriculture formed the basis of the economy of ancient Near Eastern communities; a study of the crop husbandry practices of Tell Brak can potentially identify the plant economy of the site, including the crops present in the settlement, and methods of crop processsing and use. Any agricultural responses to changes in the socio-political system, known from the archaeological evidence to have taken place during the Late Chalcolithic, can also be assessed. These responses may be able to give us an indication of the wider economic responses to societal change during the Late Chalcolithic. -- Publisher's web site.
Beschreibung:X, 175 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9781407303604

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