TY - BOOK AU - Rothman,Mitchell S. TI - Uruk Mesopotamia & its neighbors: cross-cultural interactions in the era of state formation SN - 9781930618039 (pbk.) : AV - DS62.23 .U78 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Sante Fe, NM PB - School of American Research Press KW - Middle East KW - Civilization KW - To 622 KW - Erech (Extinct city) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Dedication: To Robert McCormick Adams / Henry T. Wright -- The local and the regional: an introduction / Mitchell S. Rothman -- The prehistory of imperialism: the case of Uruk period Mesopotamia / Guillermo Algaze -- Calibrated radiocarbon age determinations of Uruk-related assemblages / Henry T. Wright and E.S.A. Rupley -- Cultural action in the Uruk world / Henry T. Wright -- Cultural and political networks in the ancient Near East during the fourth and third millenia B.C. / Hans J. Nissen -- The Uruk period in southern Mesopotamia / Susan Pollock -- Syria and the Uruk expansion / Glenn M. Schwartz -- Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact / Gil J. Stein -- Centralization processes in greater Mesopotamia: Uruk "expansion" as the climax of systemic interactions among areas of the greater Mesopotamian region / Marcella Frangipane The Tigris Piedmond, eastern Jazira, and highland western Iran in the fourth millennium B.C. / Mitchell S. Rothman -- Mesopotamian intraregional relations reflected through glyptic evidence in the late Chalcolithic 1-5 periods / Holly Pittman -- A view of the plains from the mountains: comments on Uruk by an Andeanist / Terence N. D'Altroy ER -