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The best way to achieve an understanding of the art, architecture, history, and literature of a great civilization such as Mesopotamia's, D. T. Potts believes, is through an analysis of its material infrastructure. Concentrating on Southern Mesopotamia and relying preponderantly on evidence from the third millennium B.C., Potts describes a civilization from the ground up. He creates an ethnography of ancient Mesopotamia which combines knowledge of its material culture and its mental culture.

The creation and development of Mesopotamia was made possible by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. "None of the achievements of Mesopotamian production in the realm of agriculture, animal husbandry, or related industries (textiles, leather working, boat building)," Potts says, "can be understood except in reference to the very specific river regimes and soil conditions of the alluvium."

Potts examines the climate, the landforms, and other conditions that enabled the area to become populated. What natural resources did the earliest Mesopotamians have at their disposal? How did Mesopotamian religious ideals reflect the basic conditions of life in the alluvial plain of Southern Mesopotamia? What contributions to Mesopotamian civilization came from the East and what from the West? In addressing such questions as these, Potts offers a new foundation for understanding an ancient civilization of great complexity.

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"The author has succeeded in producing a useful compendium of stand-alone essays covering some of the often-glossed-over aspects of ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The book is sure to become familiar reading to students of the ancient Near East―a testament to its merits."―Michael Danti, Biblical Archaeologist

"The great merit of the book is that Potts tries always to bring in what the written cuneiform record has to say about his subjects, and he frequently succeeds in making juxtapositions that are strikingly informative and in putting matters in a new light."―Daniel C. Snell, American Historical Review

"This excellent book covers many important subjects that are not discussed in more conventional treatments of ancient Mesopotamia."―Jerrold S. Cooper, The Johns Hopkins University

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornell University Press (February 15, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 340 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801433398
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801433399
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.988 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches

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D.T. Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University. From 1991 to 2012 he was the Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Educated at Harvard, he previously taught at the Free University of Berlin (1981-1986) and the Univ. of Copenhagen (1980-1981, 1986-1991). He is a specialist in the archaeology and early history of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula. He is the founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy; a Corrsponding Fellow of the British Academy; a Corresponding Member of ISMEO; and a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute. He has excavated at sites in Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and was co-director, with Lloyd Weeks (Armidale) 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. Since 2017 he has been collaborating with Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich) on the excavation of Gird-i Rostam, a multi-period site in Iraqi Kurdistan. His book, Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, published by Oxford University Press in 2014, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2015 PROSE Awards (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) in the Archaeology and Anthropology category. His most recent book, Persia Portrayed, examines portraits done of Persians who travelled to the West between the early 17th and the mid-19th century. His next book, Agreeable News from Persia, examines early American newspaper content related to Iran from the early 18th to the mid-19th century.

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