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Settlement and Society: Essays Dedicated to Robert McCormick Adams

edited by Elizabeth C Stone

This volume of essays dedicated to Robert McCormack Adams reflects both the breadth of his research and the select themes upon which he focused his attention. These essays, written by his students and disciples, focus on issues in Near Eastern archaeology but range as far afield as the Indus Valley and Mesoamerica. They also concentrate on aspects of early complex society, but some refer back to the late Neolithic and others forward to Islamic times. 500p, 123 illus (Cotsen: Cotsen: Ideas, Debates and Perspectives 3, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2006)

Review Quote

"The sheer diversity of topics and approaches one can find in this volume is a fitting tribute.[...]...this is a book of great value, and I am sure that it will find its place in many libraries, both private and public."

Blenda S. During
BASOR (May 2008)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Elizabeth C. Stone. Ecology: Landscape Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Past, present and future, Nicholas Kouchoukos & Tony Wilkinson; Archaeological Surveys and Mesopotamian History, Hans J. Nissen; KLM to Corona: Using satellite photography toward a new understanding of fifth/fourth millennium BC landscapes in the lower Mesopotamian alluvium, Jennifer R. Pournelle; Cycles of Settlement in the Khorramabad Valley in Luristan, Iran, Frank Hole; Harappan Geoarchaeology Reconsidered: Holocene Landscapes and Environments of the Indus Plain, Joseph Schuldenrein, Rita Wright, and Mohammed Afzal Khan; Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of the Agrarian State, Irene J. Winter; Frontiers: Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium BC, Elizabeth Carter; The Lattimore Model and Hatti’s Kaska Frontier, Paul Zimansky; Urbanism: Ancient Agency: Using Models of Intentionality to Understand the Dawn of Despotism, Henry T. Wright; City and Countryside in Third Millennium Southern Babylonia, Piotr Steinkeller; The Mesopotamian Urban Experience, Elizabeth C. Stone; The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia, Mitchell S. Rothman; Islamic Archaeology and the “Land behind Baghdad”, Donald Whitcomb; The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico, George L. Cowgill; The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat, Gregory L. Possehl; Trade: A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary; Dynamics of 'Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia, Gil J. Stein and Rana Özbal; Sumerian Takeoff, Guillermo Algaze; Technology: Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology: A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey, K. Aslihan Yener; References.

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