Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations (Athlone Publications in Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern St) [Hardcover]

D. T. Potts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000 | ISBN-10: 0485930013 | ISBN-13: 978-0485930016

There is widespread interest in the Ancient Near East and its civilizations, and the volumes in this series are designed to contribute across a broad front to our understanding of ancient history, the social sciences, art history and allied disciplines. This first volume focuses upon the material infrastructure of Mesopotamia as the pre-condition for its high cultural achievement, relating its sophisticated literature and religious philosophy to the geographical and material foundations of the land and its society as a whole.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: Athlone Press (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0485930013
• ISBN-13: 978-0485930016
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,342,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

D.T. Potts is the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He is a specialist in the archaeology and early history of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula. Educated at Harvard, he has taught at the Free University of Berlin (1981-1986), the Univ. of Copenhagen (1980-1981, 1986-1991) and the Univ. of Sydney (since 1991). He is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Society of Antiquaries of London; and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has excavated at sites in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and is currently co-director, with Lloyd Weeks (Nottingham) and Cameron Petrie (Cambridge) of a joint Iranian-Australian archaeological project in the Mamasani district of western Fars Province, investigating the prehistory and early history of the area at Tol-e Nurabad, Tol-e Spid and Qaleh Kali.