Beschreibung:
Studying archaeological evidence from sites covering over 200 kilometres of the banks of the Euphrates River, this book explores the growth and success of human settlement in the Euphrates River Valley of Northern Syria from circa 2700 to 1550 BC.
List of illustrations, List of tables, Preface and acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Environment and subsistence, 3 Settlement and socio-political structure, 4 Defence of Early Bronze Age cities, 5 Housing and households, 6 Large-scale secular buildings, 7 Communal places of worship, 8 Crafts and craft production, 9 Death, funerary monuments and ancestor cults, 10 The end of the Early Bronze Age: Euphrates settlement in decline, 11 Conclusions, Notes, Bibliography, Index