Heartland of Cities Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates 1st Edition by Adams Robert Maccormick ISBN 978-0226005447 0226005445

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ISBN 10:  0226005445

ISBN 13: 978-0226005447

Author: Adams Robert Maccormick

Heartland of Cities: Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates by Robert McC. Adams is a seminal work in the field of Near Eastern archaeology. Published in 1981 by the University of Chicago Press, this book presents the results of archaeological surveys conducted in southern Iraq between 1968 and 1975. Adams combines archaeological and written evidence to track the evolution of watercourses and settlement systems on the Mesopotamian plain over more than six thousand years. 

Table of contents: 

1 WATER, LAND, AND LIFE

River and Alluvium

Local Climate and Vegetation

An Overview of Major Watercourse Succession Patterns

Effects of Human Agencies

Features of a Premodern Euphrates Landscape

2 THE RECOVERY OF ANCIENT SETTLEMENT AND IRRIGATION PATTERNS

Maps, Air Photographs, and Their Interpretation

Boundaries of Survey Coverage

Reconnaissance Sequence, Procedures, and Effectiveness

Site Survey, Collections, and Dating

Reinterpretation of Lower Diyala Canal Patterns

Major Limitations of This Survey as a Source for Settlement History

3 URBAN ORIGINS (UBAID-EARLY DYNASTIC I PERIODS)

Onset of Alluvial Settlement

Mass Appearance of Sedentary Cultivators Around Regionally Differentiated Hierarchies of Urban Centers

The First Urban Climax

Appendix A: The Survey Data Base: Uruk-Early Dynastic 1 Sites, Collections, and Chronological Indicators

Appendix B: A Growth Simulation Program

Robert G. Hassert

4 INTEGRATION AND FRAGMENTATION UNDER SUCCESSIVE, CONTENDING DYNASTIES (EARLY DYNASTIC II-MIDDLE BABYLONIAN PERIODS)

Urban Hierarchies and Continuity

Upper and Lower Limits of Settlement, and Associated Patterns of Land Use

The Shifting Network of Watercourses and Settlements

Appendix: The Survey Data Base: Late Early Dynastic-Middle Babylonian Sites and Chronological Indicators

5 CULMINATION AND COLLAPSE OF AN AGRARIAN BASE AND URBAN SUPERSTRUCTURE (NEO-BABYLONIAN-LATE ISLAMIC PERIODS)

An Overview of Local Demographic and Settlement Trends

Changing Agricultural and Fiscal Management

Appendix: The Survey Data Base: Neo-Babylonian-Late Islamic Sites and Chronological Indicators

6 CONCLUSION

Ancient Mesopotamia as an Irrigation Society Ancient Mesopotamia as an Urban Society

7 GENERAL SITE CATALOG

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