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9780873659574

Urbanization & Land Ownership in the Ancient East: A Colloquium Held at New York University, November 1996, and the Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 1997

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    9780873659574

  • ISBN10:

    0873659570

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 5(2)
Preface 7(2)
Introduction The New Economic Archaeology of Urbanization 9(10)
Part I Urban Areas as Cosmological and Ritual Centers
Space and Time in Preagricultural Europe and the Near East: The Evidence for Early Structural Complexity
19(46)
Alexander Marshack
``Town'' and ``Country'' in Ancient Egypt
65(52)
Ogden Goelet
From Sacred Enclave to Temple to City
117(50)
Michael Hudson
Part II The Archaeology of Mesopotamian Cities
Households, Land Tenure, and Communications Systems in the 6th-4th Millennia of Greater Mesopotamia
167(36)
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
The Constraints on State and Urban Form in Ancient Mesopotamia
203(26)
Elizabeth C. Stone
Urkesh and the Question of Early Hurrian Urbanism
229(24)
Giorgio Buccellati
Part III Land Tenure and Real Estate
Thoughts on Urban Real Estate in Ancient Mesopotamia
253(36)
Marc Van De Mieroop
Land-Tenure Conditions in Third-Millennium Babylonia: The Problem of Regional Variation
289(42)
Piotr Steinkeller
Economic Aspects of Land Ownership and Land Use in Northern Mesopotamia and Syria from the Late 3rd Millennium to the Neo-Assyrian Period
331(22)
Carlo Zaccagnini
Sellers and Buyers of Urban Real Estate in South Mesopotamia at the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium BC
353(10)
Nelli V. Kozyreva
Land Use in the Sippar Region During the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Periods
363(28)
Muhammed A. Dandamayev
The Egibi Family's Real Estate in Babylon (6th Century BC)
391(30)
Cornelia Wunsch
The Biblical ``Town'' as Reality and Typology: Evaluating Biblical Reference to Towns and Their Functions
421(36)
Baruch A. Levine
Part IV Methodology Discussion and Summary
Methodology Discussion
457(24)
Summary Review: From Open Lands to Private Ownership
481(10)
Michael Hudson
Bibliographic Short Titles 491

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