The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth century speculations, are wrong. His investigation illuminates the changes in scale, complexity and hierarchy which accompany the development of civilisation. The book draws conclusions about the dynamics of social change and the processes of social evolution in general, applying those concepts to the rise of Greece and Rome, and to the collapse of the classical Mediterranean world.
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A fascinating exposition of a new approach to explain the emergence of civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. Coming from an anthropological perspective, Maisels provides a wide-ranging and penetrating analysis of the developmental process which brought agriculture, towns, and cities into being.
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Charles Keith Maisels is a Fellow at the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Archaeology and geology are twin sisters of the nineteenth-century enlightenment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social succession, archaeological ethnography, wild einkorn, organic city, hydromorphic soils, rainfed farming, wild cereals, temple estates, forest fallow, subsistence resources, wild barley, hulled barley, emmer wheat, pastoral nomadism, lineage structure, dependent labour, temple personnel, nomadic pastoralism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, Deh Luran, Early Dynastic, Jemdet Nasr, Zawi Chemi, Ali Kosh, Van Loon, Chogha Mami, Van Zeist, Zagrosian Arc, Bronze Age, Bus Mordeh, Upper Palaeolithic, Ice Age, Tepe Sabz, Iron Age, Popular Assembly, Tell Mureybet, Tepe Guran, Yarim Tepe, Chogha Sefid, Roman Empire, Sabz Phase, Tell Ramad, Early-Middle Uruk New!
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Archaeology and geology are twin sisters of the nineteenth-century enlightenment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social succession, archaeological ethnography, wild einkorn, organic city, hydromorphic soils, rainfed farming, wild cereals, temple estates, forest fallow, subsistence resources, wild barley, hulled barley, emmer wheat, pastoral nomadism, lineage structure, dependent labour, temple personnel, nomadic pastoralism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near East, Deh Luran, Early Dynastic, Jemdet Nasr, Zawi Chemi, Ali Kosh, Van Loon, Chogha Mami, Van Zeist, Zagrosian Arc, Bronze Age, Bus Mordeh, Upper Palaeolithic, Ice Age, Tepe Sabz, Iron Age, Popular Assembly, Tell Mureybet, Tepe Guran, Yarim Tepe, Chogha Sefid, Roman Empire, Sabz Phase, Tell Ramad, Early-Middle Uruk New!
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