Studying the development of complex society: Mesopotamia in the late fifth and fourth millennia BC

Journal of Archaeological Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-119

  Rothman, Mitchell S ^a  

^a WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Greater Mesopotamia; Social evolutionary theory; Uruk late chalcolithic period

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; SOCIAL HISTORY; STATE ROLE;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 1842730447     PISSN: 10590161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JARE.0000016695.21169.37     Document Type: Article

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