"In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium impacted the development of cities in southern Mesopotamia."--Jacke…
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the "cradle of civilization" owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BC. In Ancient Mesopotami…
An economic and social history of ancient textiles, looking at what can be learned about the lives, work, and values of early women from the technological record of fabric, an industry for which women were largely responsible.