| Descript |
1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Atlas of the Ancient Near East- Front Cover -- Atlas of the Ancient Near East -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Map: The Near East in its modern context -- PART I: The prehistoric Near East -- Chapter 1: The geography and geology of the ancient Near East -- Maps: The physical geography of the Near East -- Tectonic plate boundaries -- Forest zones -- The Fertile Crescent -- Chapter 2: Foragers and farmers: early agricultural communities |
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Maps: Locations of the independent development of agricultural communities worldwide -- Sites excavated in the 'hilly flanks' of the Fertile Crescent -- Chapter 3: The prehistory of the Near East: key sites -- Maps: Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites -- Neolithic sites in the Near East -- Site-plans: Abu Hureyra -- Çayönü -- Çatalhöyük -- Maps: Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Mesopotamia -- Sites of the Halaf and Early Ubaid periods -- PART II: Background to the historical era -- Chapter 4: The homelands of the major Near Eastern kingdoms |
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Maps: Core regions of the Near Eastern kingdoms -- Mesopotamia and surrounding territories (NASA satellite image) -- Modern Syria and its neighbours -- Chapter 5: Writing systems -- Chapter 6: A sample of sites where important inscriptions have been found -- Map: Sites of important inscriptions -- Chapter 7: Trade and mineral resources -- Maps: Trade routes linking Mesopotamia with its neighbours in the Early Bronze Age -- Mineral sources in the ancient Near East -- PART III: The Early Bronze Age (continuing into the Middle Bronze Age) -- Chapter 8: The Sumerians -- Map: Sumer and Akkad |
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Site-profile: Nippur -- Site-plan: Nippur -- Chapter 9: Uruk (Warka, biblical Erech) -- Map: Uruk in context -- Site-plan: Uruk -- Chapter 10: Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt -- Maps: Egypt during the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods -- Egypt today (NASA satellite image) -- Chapter 11: The Akkadian empire -- Map: The Akkadian empire in Naram Sin's reign (c. 2254-2218) -- Chapter 12: Ur and the Ur III empire -- Map: The Ur III empire -- Chapter 13: The Early and Middle Bronze Age kingdoms of western Iran -- Maps: Mesopotamia and western Iran in the 3rd and 2nd millennia bc |
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Trade routes linking Akkad with the Persian Gulf and Meluhha -- Chapter 14: The Amorites -- Map: Northern Syria and northern Mesopotamia in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages -- Site-profile: Ebla -- Site-plan: Ebla -- PART IV: The Middle Bronze Age (continuing into the Late Bronze Age) -- Chapter 15: The Isin and Larsa dynasties -- Maps: The kingdoms of Isin and Larsa (c. 1950) -- The kingdoms of Babylon and Larsa (c. 1790) -- Chapter 16: The Old Assyrian kingdom -- Map: The Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia in Samsi-Addu's reign (c. 1796-1775) -- Chapter 17: The Assyrian merchant colonies |
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Map: Trade routes during the Assyrian colony period |
| Note |
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Birkett-Rees, Jessie.
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| ISBN |
9781317562108 |
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