Settlement and Society

Elizabeth C. Stone is professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University.

• Introduction (Elizabeth C Stone); Ecology Landscape Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Past, present and future (Nicholas Kouchoukos & Tony Wilkinson); Archaeological Surveys and Mesopotamian History (Hans J Nissen); KLM to Corona: Using satellite photography toward a new understanding of fifth/fourth millennium BC landscapes in the lower Mesopotamian alluvium (Jennifer R Pournelle); Cycles of Settlement in the Khorramabad Valley in Luristan, Iran (Frank Hole); Harappan Geoarchaeology Reconsidered: Holocene Landscapes and Environments of the Indus Plain (Joseph Schuldenrein, Rita Wright, and Mohammed Afzal Khan); Representing Abundance: The Visual Dimension of the Agrarian State (Irene J Winter); Frontiers Resisting Empire: Elam in the First Millennium BC (Elizabeth Carter); The Lattimore Model and Hatti's Kaska Frontier (Paul Zimansky); Urbanism Ancient Agency: Using Models of Intentionality to Understand the Dawn of Despotism (Henry T Wright); City and Countryside in Third Millennium Southern Babylonia (Piotr Steinkeller); The Mesopotamian Urban Experience (Elizabeth C Stone); The Archaeology of Early Administrative Systems in Mesopotamia (Mitchell S Rothman); Islamic Archaeology and the "Land behind Baghdad" (Donald Whitcomb); The Urban Organization of Teotihuacan, Mexico (George L Cowgill); The Harappan Settlement of Gujarat (Gregory L Possehl); Trade A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary Dynamics of 'Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia (Gil J Stein and Rana Izbal); The Sumerian Takeoff (Guillermo Algaze); Technology Transformative Impulses in Late Bronze Age Technology:A Case Study from the Amuq Valley, Southern Turkey (K Aslihan Yener); References.

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