Uruk Countryside: Natural Setting of Urban Societies

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by  Adams R.McC., Nissen H.J.

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The Uruk Countryside
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he Uruk Countryside
of
The NaturalSetting Urban Societies
Robert McC. Adams and
Hans J.N issen
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1972 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1972
Printed in the United States of America
International Standard Book Number: 0-226-00500-3
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-179489
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Preface ix
1 CONFIGURATIONS OF SETTLEMENT Robert McC. Adams xi
1. Physiographic Characteristics and Problems 1
2. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Early
Urbanization 9
3. Continuity and Change in Early Historic
Settlements and Watercourses 35
Historical and TopographicalN otes: Ur III-
Old Babylonian Periods Hans J. Nissen
4. Resettlement and Abandonment in Later
Antiquity 55
5. Recent Life and Settlement . 67
6. The Uruk/Warka Region in Historic and
Comparative Perspective 85
2 ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURFACE COLLECTIONS Hans J. Nissen 95
7. Typological Dating Criteria 97
8. Surface Collections 105
Appendix: Catalog of Surveyed Sites 219
Robert McC. Adams
Index 239
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Illustrations
1. Topographic map of ancient sites and water- 18. Cassite-Middle Babylonian settlements and
courses in the Warka region 2Z-3 watercourses 40
2
2. Early Uruk and earlier sites 10 19. Neo-Babylonian-Seleucid settlements and
3. Late Uruk settlements and watercourses 13 watercourses 56
4. Jemdet Nasr settlements and watercourses 14 20. Parthian settlements and watercourses 60
5. Early Dynastic I settlements and watercourses 15 21. Sassanian settlements and watercourses 61
22. Early-Middle Islamic settlements and water-
6. Late Early Dynastic settlements, watercourses,
and zones of cultivation 16 courses 64
7. Classification of early sites by period and area 17 23. Late Ottoman settlements and watercourses 69
24. Contemporary tribal groupings in the Warka
8. Settlement typology, district boundaries, and
patterns of abandonment in the Jemdet Nasr region 70
and Early Dynastic I periods 20 25. Qalca Kharkhara, a late nineteenth century
9. Distribution of early sites by period and five- settlement and stronghold 75
kilometer square 21 26. Late nineteenth century enclave of irrigation
10. Actual and random dispersion of early sites by and settlement around Qalca Sussa 77
period 22 27. Ruins of Qalca Sussa 78
11. Early composite sites and site clusters 24 28. Plans of representative Late Ottoman strong-
12. A Jemdet Nasr marsh settlement 25 holds 79
29. Qalca Falhlya, an early twentieth century
13. Nonurban population density, average settle-
ment size, and nearest neighbor coefficients in stronghold 80
early periods 26 30. Pottery type chart: Early Uruk-Early Dynastic I 101
14. A Late Uruk settlement cluster or enclave 28 31. Distribution of the types in figure 30 102
15. Relationship between population size and
32. List of sites from which the pottery is published 106
density in fifty-three Khuzestan villages 29
33-80. Pottery from selected sites 1059-203
16. Population density in Uruk sustaining area 31
81-82. Metal vessels from selected sites 20,4-205
17. Akkadian-Old Babylonian settlements and
watercourses 36 83. A baked clay temple model 215
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