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050 00 $aDS57$b.P67 1997
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100 1 $aPotts, Daniel T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84079908
245 10 $aMesopotamian civilization :$bthe material foundations /$cD.T. Potts.
260 $aIthaca, N.Y. :$bCornell Unviersity Press,$c1997.
300 $axx, 366 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [312]-347) and index.
505 00 $gI.$tThe Country and its Climate --$gII.$tThe Aboriginal Population of Southern Mesopotamia --$gIII.$tAgriculture and Diet --$gIV.$tInedible Natural Resources --$gV.$tWatercraft --$gVI.$tPottery Production --$gVII.$tMetal Production --$gVIII.$tSome Material Correlates of Religious Life --$gIX.$tKinship in an Urban Society --$gX.$tMortuary Practices --$gXI.$tFunctional Aspects of Writing and Sealing --$gXII.$tEast meets West --$gXIII.$tWest meets East --$gXIV.$tSome Reflections.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aHe creates an ethnography of ancient Mesopotamia which combines knowledge of its material culture and its mental culture."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"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?
520 8 $aIn addressing such questions as these, Potts offers a new foundation for understanding an ancient civilization of great complexity."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aMiddle East$xCivilization$yTo 622.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090503
650 0 $aEthnology$zMiddle East.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045338
650 0 $aPhysical geography$zMiddle East.
852 00 $bglx$hDS57$i.P67 1997