By Harriet Crawford
Mesopotamia produced one of many best-known historic civilizations, with a literate, city tradition and highly-developed political associations. Harriet Crawford reports the extreme social and technological advancements within the area over a interval of 2 millennia (from 3800 to 2000 BC) during this totally revised and extended version of her vintage textual content. Drawing at the most recent old and archaeological assets, she describes the actual surroundings and covers structure, exchange and undefined, the improvement of writing, and adjustments in social and political constructions. First version Hb (1991): 0-521-38175-4 First version Pb (1991): 0-521-38850-3
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