Description: Settlement And Society : Essays Dedicated to Robert Mccormick Adams, Paperback by Stone, Elizabeth Caecilia (EDT), ISBN 1931745323, ISBN-13 9781931745321, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK He was amongst the first to use the archaeological survey to understand the development of urbanism and complex society. He explored broad issues such as frontiers, trade, and the collapse of civilizations while also enjoying the finer points of Mesopotamian ecology. This festschrift celebrates Adams's wide range and unique abilities in 18 wide-ranging essays, covering Mesopotamian landscape archaeology, archaeological surveys and the study of Mesopotamian history, cultural ecology and early Mesopotamian urbanization, cycles of settlement, holocene landscapes and environments, visual dimensions of the agrarian state, Lattimore models and Hatti's Kaska frontier, models of intent and despotism, city and countryside in third-millennium southern Babylon, Mesopotamian urban experience, early administrative systems, Islamic archeology, urban Teotihuacan, the Harappan settlement of Guijurat, variations in the dynamics of expansion, the landscape of trade, and a case study on the technology of the Amuq Valley of Turkey. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Settlement And Society : Essays Dedicated to Robert Mccormick Ada
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Archaeology, History
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert Mccormick Adams
Type: Textbook
Author: Elizabeth C. Stone
Series: Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives
Format: Paperback
