Mesopotamian Civilization : The Material Foundations

by: Potts, D.T.

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 There is widespread interest in the Ancient Near East and its civilizations, and the volumes in this series are designed to contribute across a broad front to our understanding of ancient history, the social sciences, art history and allied disciplines. This first volume focuses upon the material infrastructure of Mesopotamia as the pre-condition for its high cultural achievement, relating its sophisticated literature and religious philosophy to the geographical and material foundations of the land and its society as a whole.

Here the oldest roots of European concepts of witchcraft and magic are surveyed, examining magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia, attitudes to it in the Old Testament and later Jewish tradition, and beliefs and legends in pre-Christian Scandinavia.

The Aboriginal Population of Southern Mesopotamia
43
Agriculture and Diet
56
Inedible Natural Resources
91
Watercraft
122
Pottery Production
138
Metal Production
164
Workshops and Metalworking Metalsbased Equivalency
181
Symbols The House of the Deity From Sumerian Temples
200
Mortuary Practices
220
Functional Aspects of Writing and Sealing
236
East meets West
254
West meets East
276
Some Reflections
302
Abbreviations
308
Index
348

Kinship in an Urban Society
208
 

Subjects:
15.51 Antiquity
Civilization
Ethnologie Moyen-Orient
Ethnology
Ethnology Middle East
Geschichte
Iraq Civilization To 634
Kultur
Materiële cultuur
Mesopotamien
Middle East
Middle East Antiquities
Middle East Civilization To 622
Moyen-Orient Civilisation Jusqu'à 622
Physical geography
Physical geography Middle East
Sachkultur
To 622

Series:
Athlone publications in Egyptology and ancient Near Eastern studies

xx, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

D.T. Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, he previously taught at the Free University of Berlin (1981-1986) and the Univ. of Copenhagen (1980-1981, 1986-1991). He is a specialist in the archaeology and early history of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula. He is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy; a Corrsponding Fellow of the British Academy; a Corresponding Member of ISMEO; and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has excavated at sites in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was co-director, with Lloyd Weeks (Armidale) and Cameron Petrie (Cambridge), of a joint Iranian-Australian archaeological project in the Mamasani district of western Fars Province, investigating the prehistory and early history of the area at Tol-e Nurabad, Tol-e Spid and Qaleh Kali. Since 2017 he has been collaborating with Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich) on the excavation of Gird-i Rostam, a multi-period site in Iraqi Kurdistan. His book, Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, published by Oxford University Press in 2014, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2015 PROSE Awards (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) in the Archaeology and Anthropology category. His most recent book, Persia Portrayed, examines portraits done of Persians who travelled to the West between the early 17th and the mid-19th century. His next book, Agreeable News from Persia, examines early American newspaper content related to Iran from the early 18th to the mid-19th century.

Mesopotamian Civilization : The Material Foundations

by: Potts, D.T.

• ISBN-13: 9780485930016 / 978-0-485-93001-6
• ISBN-03: 0485930013 / 0-485-93001-3
• The Athlone Press, London, 1997

Price: 95,00 EURO

1 copy in stock