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Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society
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ISBN: 9781107666078 1107666074 9780521764438 9780511895012 9781139336468 1139336460 9781139338202 113933820X 0511895011 0521764432 9781139339780 1139333976 1107217253 1139339788 128039384X 9786613571762 1139337335 1139341367 9781280393846 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"In this book, Anne Porter explores the idea that mobile and sedentary members of the ancient world were integral parts of the same social and political groups in greater Mesopotamia during the period 4000 to 1500 BCE. She draws on a wide range of archaeological and cuneiform sources to show how networks of social structure, political and religious ideology, and everyday as well as ritual practice, worked to maintain the integrity of those groups when the pursuit of different subsistence activities dispersed them over space. These networks were dynamic, shaping many of the key events and innovations of the time, including the Uruk expansion and the introduction of writing, so-called secondary state formation and the organization and operation of government, the literary production of the Third Dynasty of Ur and the first stories of Gilgamesh, and the emergence of the Amorrites in the second millennium BCE"--


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ISBN: 9780511895012 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Archeology --- Middle East --- Iraq


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The core concepts of occupational therapy : a dynamic framework for practice
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ISBN: 1282767283 9786612767289 0857003623 9780857003621 9781849050074 1849050074 9781282767287 6612767286 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers,

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Based on the work of the terminology project group of the European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education (ENOTHE), this book selects and defines the core building blocks of occupational therapy theory. Consensus definitions of a wide range of terms are developed through an analysis of published definitions from around the world.


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Sacred Killing : The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East
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ISBN: 9781575062365 1575062364 1575066769 9781575066769 Year: 2012 Publisher: Winona Lake, Ind. : Eisenbrauns,

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What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.


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Céramique de l'âge du bronze en Syrie. 2 : L'Euphrate et la région de Jézireh.
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ISBN: 9782351590614 Year: 2007 Publisher: Beyrouth Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient

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