Mesopotamian Civilization
The Material Foundations
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Word Count
85,000 words, Guess
Page Count
340 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7848218M
- ISBN-139780801433399
- ISBN-100801433398
- OCLC Control Number35262365
- OCLC Control Numbermesopotamiancivi0000pott
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96034832
- Goodreads4790526
- LibraryThing4142425
Classifications
- LCCDS57.P67 1997
Description
"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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