Anthony Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 191943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0561-4728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Tell Khaiber, A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty
Joan Louise Oates (Lines) (1928–2023)
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Urban Heterogeneity in the Early Cities of Northern Mesopotamia
The cities of northern Mesopotamia during the early fourth millennium bc were among the world’s earliest and provide the opportunity to examine pristine urban socio-economic developments. Tell Brak in north-east Syria conforms to Wirth’s definition of cities as large, dense, and internally heterogeneous. Brak’s urban landscape and occupation density were highly variable. Its power institutions were both secular and religious, reflecting hard and …
Dense urbanism and economic multi-centrism at third-millennium BC Lagash
Studies of ancient Mesopotamian cities have long focused on their institutions. Here, instead, the authors draw on recent investigations at the third-millennium BC site of Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba, Iraq) to explore urban density, economy and sustainability at one of the largest ancient urban centres of the region. Drawing on excavation, environmental and remote-sensing data, the authors adopt a multi-scalar approach, revealing dense urban occu…
The Structure and Hydrology of the Early Dynastic City of Lagash (Tell Al-Hiba) From Satellite and Aerial Images
Satellite imagery and UAV (drone) photos taken at Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba) after rainstorms and at times of elevated soil moisture show dense near-surface architecture that dates mostly to the Early Dynastic III period (c. 2600–2350 BCE) and covers several hundred hectares. Archaeological knowledge of Mesopotamian urban structure has mostly been limited to isolated excavated neighbourhoods, such as at third millennium BCE Tutub (Khafajah) or …
Composite Human‐animal Figures in Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia
Urban growth in northern Mesopotamia in the early fourth millennium BC was accompanied by an increase in clay container sealings, reflecting the intensified movement and management of resources and manufactured items. The diverse imagery impressed into these sealings includes a human‐ibex grasping a pair of snakes, a bird‐human, and other composite figures. The human‐ibex in particular has been identified as a ‘shaman’, but this is not an appropr…
Recent Archaeology in Iraq, 2018–2019
Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia
Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with diverse populations, institutions, extended hinterlands, and mass production by the early fourth millennium BC, comparable to well-known evidence for cities in their traditional homeland of southern Iraq. However, early northern Mesopotamian cities incorporated low-density zo…
Recent Archaeology in Iraq
Isotope evidence for agricultural extensification reveals how the world's first cities were fed
The growth of early social networks
The Encultured Vulture
Le début du 4e millénaire av. J.-C. dans le nord de la Mésopotamie voit les débuts de l’urbanisme dans la région, au cours du Chalcolithique récent (LC) 2-3 (ca 4200-3600 av. J.-C.). Ce changement démographique et socio-économique a été accompagné d’une explosion de la créativité artistique, exprimée par une plus grande diversité et complexité des arts glyptiques. Les empreintes de sceaux récemment découverts à Tell Brak (nord-est de la Syrie), q…
Space, Sound, and Light
Scale and symmetry in monumental architecture are embraced by archaeologists as the primary vocabulary in past statements of power. In ancient Mesopotamia in particular, the excessive size of public buildings implied the control of both space and people. The predictable, often symmetrical plans regulated and reflected control over users' behavior. However, interpretations based on plans alone remain simplistic; analyses from ground level can bett…
Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states
Excavations and surveys carried out from the mid-1990s through 2009 at Tell Brak, northeast Syria, have focused on reconstructing the socioeconomic complexity and physical growth of one of northern Mesopotamia's earliest urban settlements. The recent discovery of several mass graves on the edge of the city, created at an important threshold in its physical expansion (ca. 3800–3600 B.C.), adds to a longstanding debate about the connection between …
The lion, the king and the cage
Recent excavations at Tell Brak, Syria, have explored the site's early urban expansion, including excavation of Late Chalcolithic mass graves in a small mound at the site's outer edge. This mound built up rapidly and is primarily composed of industrial rubbish, particularly ceramics and flint debitage. The rubbish layers also contained nearly one thousand clay container sealings bearing stamp-seal impressions. The most important images represente…
Excavations at Tell Brak 2006–2007
Excavations at Tell Brak in 2006–7 explored two key episodes in Mesopotamian political and social history, developing early social complexity in the fifth to fourth millennia BC and the shift from territorial state to early empire in the second millennium BC. Late Chalcolithic complexity is represented in Area TW on the main mound and at the outlying sub-mound of Tell Majnuna, while investigation of the Old Babylonian to Mitanni state-to-empire t…
Early Mesopotamian urbanism
For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: 'The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted in a massive population shift into large sites' said Nissen in 1988. 'These new city-states set the pattern for Mesopotamia as the heartland of cities' (Adams 1981; Yoffee 1998). And for Stone & Zimansky (2005) 'Remains of the wor…
British excavations at Chagar Bazar, 2001-2
Excavations at Chagar Bazar by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq team continued in 2001 and 2002 in Areas A and G (Fig. 1). In both areas, the final occupation of the site, datable to ca 1800–1650 BC, was investigated. Cuneiform tablets from Max Mallowan's 1930s excavations testify to the key position held by Chagar Bazar at the beginning of this period. His work had exposed large areas of domestic and administrative structures, but strat…
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000
For three seasons, 1935 through 1937, Max Mallowan excavated at Chagar Bazar, after selecting it during a survey of the Upper Habur region in 1934. The Mallowan excavations are most notable for the “Prehistoric Pit”, with its deep sequence of Halaf and 3rd millennium BC levels, and for the horizontal exposure of early 2nd millennium BC buildings at the centre of the site. These excavations made a substantial contribution to the initial identifica…
Taking Care of Men
Taking Care of Men
The Archaeology of Elam
In order to discuss the origins and development of Elam, we must first establish where the name comes from and what it signified.This chapter examines the etymology of the name and introduces the reader to the changing nature of its application.It also takes up the fundamental chronological issue which must be tackled before launching into an examination of the material and historical evidence covered here.When do we first find Elam mentioned?How…
Taking Care of Men
Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia
Cities generate challenges as well as confer advantages on their inhabitants. Recent excavations and surveys in northern Mesopotamia have revealed extensive settlements with diverse populations, institutions, extended hinterlands, and mass production by the early fourth millennium BC, comparable to well-known evidence for cities in their traditional homeland of southern Iraq. However, early northern Mesopotamian cities incorporated low-density zo…
Early Mesopotamian urbanism
For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: 'The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted in a massive population shift into large sites' said Nissen in 1988. 'These new city-states set the pattern for Mesopotamia as the heartland of cities' (Adams 1981; Yoffee 1998). And for Stone & Zimansky (2005) 'Remains of the wor…
Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states
Excavations and surveys carried out from the mid-1990s through 2009 at Tell Brak, northeast Syria, have focused on reconstructing the socioeconomic complexity and physical growth of one of northern Mesopotamia's earliest urban settlements. The recent discovery of several mass graves on the edge of the city, created at an important threshold in its physical expansion (ca. 3800–3600 B.C.), adds to a longstanding debate about the connection between …
Space, Sound, and Light
Scale and symmetry in monumental architecture are embraced by archaeologists as the primary vocabulary in past statements of power. In ancient Mesopotamia in particular, the excessive size of public buildings implied the control of both space and people. The predictable, often symmetrical plans regulated and reflected control over users' behavior. However, interpretations based on plans alone remain simplistic; analyses from ground level can bett…
Male readings of feminist theory
The growth of early social networks
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
Dense urbanism and economic multi-centrism at third-millennium BC Lagash
Studies of ancient Mesopotamian cities have long focused on their institutions. Here, instead, the authors draw on recent investigations at the third-millennium BC site of Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba, Iraq) to explore urban density, economy and sustainability at one of the largest ancient urban centres of the region. Drawing on excavation, environmental and remote-sensing data, the authors adopt a multi-scalar approach, revealing dense urban occu…
Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities
The first Mesopotamian city-states in the Uruk period (ca. 3800-3100 B. C.) pursued a strategy of commercial expansion into neighboring areas of the Zagros Mountains, Syria, and southeastern Anatolia. Recent research in these areas has located several Uruk outposts, in what is apparently the world's earliest-known colonial system. Although some Uruk "colonies" have been excavated, virtually nothing is known about either the operation of this syst…
The Encultured Vulture
Le début du 4e millénaire av. J.-C. dans le nord de la Mésopotamie voit les débuts de l’urbanisme dans la région, au cours du Chalcolithique récent (LC) 2-3 (ca 4200-3600 av. J.-C.). Ce changement démographique et socio-économique a été accompagné d’une explosion de la créativité artistique, exprimée par une plus grande diversité et complexité des arts glyptiques. Les empreintes de sceaux récemment découverts à Tell Brak (nord-est de la Syrie), q…
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
Native American Agencies for Native American Children
The Indian Child Welfare Act seeks to protect Indian children from family and cultural disruption. The Act mandates minimum standards for the removal of Indian children and for their placement in foster care. However, a recent national survey suggests that requirements for Indian foster homes are not being met in public agency substitute care programs. At the same time, Native American child welfare agencies have developed a range of services for…
Two Seasons At Hajar Am‐Dhaybiyya, Yemen
In 1984 a Franco‐Yemeni Mission excavating a part of the necropolis of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya (Governate of Shabwa, Yemen), unearthed several tombs with a rich inventory. The high quality of silver craftmanship of these objects suggested that the Wâdî Dura’was potentially interesting. Some years later a Franco‐American expedition, directed both by J.‐F. Breton and D.W. Warburton, started a trench on the mound of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya. A 40 metre‐long tr…
Urban Heterogeneity in the Early Cities of Northern Mesopotamia
The cities of northern Mesopotamia during the early fourth millennium bc were among the world’s earliest and provide the opportunity to examine pristine urban socio-economic developments. Tell Brak in north-east Syria conforms to Wirth’s definition of cities as large, dense, and internally heterogeneous. Brak’s urban landscape and occupation density were highly variable. Its power institutions were both secular and religious, reflecting hard and …
Ageing in rural North Queensland
This paper reviews a number of planning and social justice issues that arose during a research project undertaken by the authors into the human service needs of the elderly in a coastal shire in rural North Queensland in 1995/96. The paper offers a brief review of current aged care policy and a report on the major findings of the project, before moving on to a more critical analysis of the planning and equity issues that arose for the authors dur…
Male readings of feminist theory
Investigation of the Early Dynastic-Akkadian Transition
The Akkadian Period has not received the archaeological attention it deserves, despite its great historical and artistic importance. Excavated remains from the period have been more extensively reported from Syria, at such sites as Tell Brak, than from the core area of southern Iraq. The artifactual assemblage is still ill-defined, in part due to delays in the final publication of crucial excavations, including our own work at Umm al-Hafriyat and…
Native American Agencies for Native American Children
The Indian Child Welfare Act seeks to protect Indian children from family and cultural disruption. The Act mandates minimum standards for the removal of Indian children and for their placement in foster care. However, a recent national survey suggests that requirements for Indian foster homes are not being met in public agency substitute care programs. At the same time, Native American child welfare agencies have developed a range of services for…
Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities
The first Mesopotamian city-states in the Uruk period (ca. 3800-3100 B. C.) pursued a strategy of commercial expansion into neighboring areas of the Zagros Mountains, Syria, and southeastern Anatolia. Recent research in these areas has located several Uruk outposts, in what is apparently the world's earliest-known colonial system. Although some Uruk "colonies" have been excavated, virtually nothing is known about either the operation of this syst…
The Early Dynastic-Akkadian Transition Part II
The Early Dynastic-Akkadian transition, Part 2. The authors' response
Dr Matthews was kind enough to show us a draft of the preceding article before publication so that we could reply, for which we thank him. Our original article was intended as a review of the problem of the Early Dynastic to Akkadian transition and as a quick general overview of the WF excavation at Nippur, rather than the final statement on either. The point of the article was not to define the Akkadian Period but to make steps towards the ident…
Excavations at Hacınebi, Turkey
Family Experiences of Juvenile Crime
This paper examines the focus on the connections between family life and juvenile crime. Existing literature silences the voices of young offenders and their families and renders them the passive objects of empirical inquiry. The resulting one-dimensional representation of offenders and their families vastly over-simplifies the complexities of family life and ignores the specific consequences of criminalization for all family members. This paper …
The City Walls of Nippur and an Islamic Site beyond
During the Oriental Institute's seventeenth season of excavation at Nippur (1987), major new information was gathered on the history of the city walls. In addition, we investigated a recently discovered small Islamic site a short distance beyond the north-eastern city wall.The expedition arrived in Iraq in late September and began excavation on October 10. The digging ended on December 12. The staff consisted of McGuire Gibson as director, Sayyid…
Metallgefäße im Iraq I (von den Anfängen bis zur Akkad-Zeit) . Michael Müller-Karpe
Blokus domesticus
Two Seasons At Hajar Am‐Dhaybiyya, Yemen
In 1984 a Franco‐Yemeni Mission excavating a part of the necropolis of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya (Governate of Shabwa, Yemen), unearthed several tombs with a rich inventory. The high quality of silver craftmanship of these objects suggested that the Wâdî Dura’was potentially interesting. Some years later a Franco‐American expedition, directed both by J.‐F. Breton and D.W. Warburton, started a trench on the mound of Hajar am‐Dhaybiyya. A 40 metre‐long tr…
Ageing in rural North Queensland
This paper reviews a number of planning and social justice issues that arose during a research project undertaken by the authors into the human service needs of the elderly in a coastal shire in rural North Queensland in 1995/96. The paper offers a brief review of current aged care policy and a report on the major findings of the project, before moving on to a more critical analysis of the planning and equity issues that arose for the authors dur…
Taking Care of Men
The idea of the sensitive, post-feminist 'new man' has received great attention. This book sets out to determine how much of the hype is based on fact, and why such images have proliferated in the media. McMahon focuses on the pivotal issue of men's relationship to the vital daily work of caring for people - both physically and emotionally - revealing much confusion about the extent and the interpretation of change. Using statistical data, as wel…
Taking Care of Men
New Excavations at Chagar Bazar, 1999-2000
For three seasons, 1935 through 1937, Max Mallowan excavated at Chagar Bazar, after selecting it during a survey of the Upper Habur region in 1934. The Mallowan excavations are most notable for the “Prehistoric Pit”, with its deep sequence of Halaf and 3rd millennium BC levels, and for the horizontal exposure of early 2nd millennium BC buildings at the centre of the site. These excavations made a substantial contribution to the initial identifica…
Taking Care of Men
Taking Care of Men
The Archaeology of Elam
In order to discuss the origins and development of Elam, we must first establish where the name comes from and what it signified.This chapter examines the etymology of the name and introduces the reader to the changing nature of its application.It also takes up the fundamental chronological issue which must be tackled before launching into an examination of the material and historical evidence covered here.When do we first find Elam mentioned?How…
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
Writing diversity
In 1997, Australian Social Work celebrated 50 years of publication. This paper provides a content and discourse analysis of 50 years of articles on Indigenous and immigrant Australians in the journal and its predecessors. The analysis critically evaluates the published accounts of cross-cultural social work research, policy and practice and identifies the meanings these articles convey of race and ethnicity in Australian professional identity and…
British excavations at Chagar Bazar, 2001-2
Excavations at Chagar Bazar by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq team continued in 2001 and 2002 in Areas A and G (Fig. 1). In both areas, the final occupation of the site, datable to ca 1800–1650 BC, was investigated. Cuneiform tablets from Max Mallowan's 1930s excavations testify to the key position held by Chagar Bazar at the beginning of this period. His work had exposed large areas of domestic and administrative structures, but strat…
Excavations at Tell Brak 2006–2007
Excavations at Tell Brak in 2006–7 explored two key episodes in Mesopotamian political and social history, developing early social complexity in the fifth to fourth millennia BC and the shift from territorial state to early empire in the second millennium BC. Late Chalcolithic complexity is represented in Area TW on the main mound and at the outlying sub-mound of Tell Majnuna, while investigation of the Old Babylonian to Mitanni state-to-empire t…
Early Mesopotamian urbanism
For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: 'The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted in a massive population shift into large sites' said Nissen in 1988. 'These new city-states set the pattern for Mesopotamia as the heartland of cities' (Adams 1981; Yoffee 1998). And for Stone & Zimansky (2005) 'Remains of the wor…
The lion, the king and the cage
Recent excavations at Tell Brak, Syria, have explored the site's early urban expansion, including excavation of Late Chalcolithic mass graves in a small mound at the site's outer edge. This mound built up rapidly and is primarily composed of industrial rubbish, particularly ceramics and flint debitage. The rubbish layers also contained nearly one thousand clay container sealings bearing stamp-seal impressions. The most important images represente…
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