Mesopotamia Civilization: The Material Foundations - Rilegato

Potts, D. T.

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ISBN 10: 0801433398 ISBN 13: 9780801433399

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

The best way to achieve an understanding of the art, architecture, history, and literature of a great civilization such as Mesopotamia's, D. T. Potts believes, is through an analysis of its material infrastructure. Concentrating on Southern Mesopotamia and relying preponderantly on evidence from the third millennium B.C., Potts describes a civilization from the ground up. He creates an ethnography of ancient Mesopotamia which combines knowledge of its material culture and its mental culture.
Potts examines the climate, the landforms, and other conditions that enabled the area to become populated. What natural resources did the earliest Mesopotamians have at their disposal? How did Mesopotamian religious ideals reflect the basic conditions of life in the alluvial plain of Southern Mesopotamia? What contributions to Mesopotamian civilization came from the East and what from the West? In addressing such questions as these, Potts offers a new foundation for understanding an ancient civilization of great complexity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

D. T. Potts is Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801433398
• ISBN 13: 9780801433399
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 366
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile