334 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, Lisa Cooper's excellent monograph explores the growth and development of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.
Cooper focuses on the nature and development of the urban politics that existed... Read more
List of illustrations, List of tables, Preface and acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Environment and subsistence, 3 Settlement and socio-political structure, 4 Defence of Early Bronze Age cities, 5 Housing and households, 6 Large-scale secular buildings, 7 Communal places of worship, 8 Crafts and craft production, 9 Death, funerary monuments and ancestor cults, 10 The end of the Early Bronze Age: Euphrates settlement in decline, 11 Conclusions, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Lisa Cooper
'This constitutes an extremely useful and comprehensive synthesis of the Early Bronze Age material... which makes this general and well-informed account, to say nothing of the references themselves, of great value... the book is undoubtedly an invaluable, comprehensive, well-informed and very readable volume.... a must for anyone interested in third millenium ancient Syria.' - Joan Oates, Antiquity
