Uruk World System
The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24246391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guillermo Algaze |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 174 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. By Guillermo Algaze, Kathryn Keith, 1995 |
| Venue | Uruk World System (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| ISBN | 9780226013824 |
| Open Library | OL28429699M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 82 |
"Most archaeologists and historians of the ancient Near East have focused on the internal transformations that led to the emergence of early cities and states in the alluvial lowlands of the Tigris-Euphrates rivers, in what is currently southern Iraq, during the fourth millennium B.C. In The Uruk World System Guillermo Algaze concentrates instead on a coterminous phenomenon: the wide-ranging expansion of southern Mesopotamian (Uruk) cultural influences and emplacements into portions of northern Iraq, northern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. In this extensive study, he contends that the emergence of Mesopotamian civilization cannot be understood without also taking into account developments in outlying areas surrounding the southern Iraqi alluvium. This edition includes a substantial new chapter that explores new data for the nature of Uruk settlement across Syro-Mesopotamia and discusses current interpretations of that phenomenon, which Algaze contends can be understood as the world's first colonial experiment."--Jacket.
Civilization · Cultuurspreiding · Expansion · Geschichte Anfänge-634 · Grensgebieden · History · Kultur · Middle east, civilization · Nederzettingspatronen · Zivilisation
Archaeology in the Land of Carchemish
Fitting upland, steppe, and desert into a ‘big picture’ perspective
Pre-Classical Activity in the Basalt Landscape of the Homs Region, Syria
On pins and needles
Jerablus-Tahtani, Syria, 1992–4
Landscape and Settlement in the Eastern Upper Iraqi Tigris and Navkur Plains
The diffusion of the cuneiform writing system in northern Mesopotamia
Revisiting the Sealands
New Insights on the Role of Environmental Dynamics Shaping Southern Mesopotamia
Empires reconsidered
Agricultural adaptation to highland climate in Iron Age Anatolia
Uruk expansion or integrated development? A petrographic and geochemical perspective from Gurga Chiya, Iraqi Kurdistan
Bulked gold, riverine trade, hiking trails, and WorldView2 satellite remote sensing in Northwestern Luzon
The Uruk expansion as dynamic process
Symbolic bead exchange and polity interaction in Mahan civilization (c. 100 BCE–300 CE), South Korea
Not Seeing Is Believing
Ancient Egypt and the Near East in World History
Diet and cuisine
The English School's Contribution to the Study of International Relations
Colonizing China’s Northern Frontier
Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns, and Serial Mesopotamian Fragmentation
Ancient Core-Periphery Interactions
Beyond Replication
Origins and Age of Deterrence
City Systems and World Systems
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology
Regional Settlement Pattern Studies
Early Urbanism in Northern Mesopotamia
Mobility and Social Change
Political economy and archaeology
Recent Research in the Southern Highlands and Pacific Coast of Mesoamerica
An Alternative Order
La arquitectura pública del Periodo Precerámico Tardío y el reto conceptual del urbanismo andino
Writing and Civilization in Early Mesopotamia
Households and the Emergence of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia
Contextualizing Early Urbanization
Copper and Complexity
Mahtoutabad III (Province of Kerman, Iran)
Origins, Homelands and Migrations
The economic and institutional determinants of trade expansion in Bronze Age Greater Mesopotamia
Sovereignty and territoriality in the city–state
Wari imperialism, bronze production, and the formation of the Middle Horizon
At the edge of empire
Change and continuity in the long-distance exchange networks between western/central Anatolia, northern Levant and northern Mesopotamia, c.3200–1600 BCE
The emergence of cultural identities and territorial policies in the longue durée
New evidence on Uruk expansion in the Central Mesopotamian Zagros Piedmont
Rise and Fall
Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states
Interregional Archaeology in the Age of Big Data
Spindle Whorls, Gender, and Ethnicity at Late Chalcolithic Hacinebi Tepe
The Late Chalcolithic at Çadtr Höyük in Central Anatolia
The Archaeology of Ancient State Economies
Primary State Formation in Mesoamerica
The prehistoric ceramic assemblage from Horum Höyük
Archaeology and world-systems analysis
Beyond themandala
Cultic resilience and inter-city engagement at the dawn of urban history
The Uruk Expansion
Evolution of Maya Polities in the Ancient Mesoamerican System
Regions and Interaction Networks
Polity scale shifts in world-systems since the Bronze Age
Prehistoric Interregional Interaction in Anatolia and the Balkans
World-Systems Theory, Networks, and Modern-World Archaeology
World-Systems Theorizing
Early Urban Societies
The Postclassic Mesoamerican World System
The Bronze Age
On Models and Data in Mesopotamia
Prehistories of Commodity Branding
Initial Social Complexity in Southwestern Asia
Egypt and Syro-Mesopotamia in the 4th Millennium
Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds
Because life it selfe is but motion
Complexidade social, sistemas comunicativos e gênese da escrita cuneiforme
The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey
Late Chalcolithic Ceramic Development in Southern Iraqi Kurdistan
The Anthropology in American Historical Archaeology
Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC)
Agency in Ancient Writing
Early State Formation in Southern Mesopotamia
Swahili Synoecism
From Metallurgy to Bronze Age Civilizations
| Citations per year | 2.65 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2021 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |