1. Introduction / N. Yoffee -- 2. Tell Maghzaliyah: An Early Neolithic Site in Northern Iraq / N. O. Bader -- a. 1977-1978 Results -- b. 1979-1980 Results -- 3. The Early Agricultural Settlement of Tell Sotto / N. O. Bader -- 4. Results of the Excavations at the Early Agricultural Site of Kultepe in Northern Iraq / N. O. Bader -- 5. Summary of The Earliest Agriculturalists of Northern Mesopotamia (1989) / N. O. Bader -- 6. Yarim Tepe I / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- a. The Upper Hassuna Levels -- b. The Lower Hassuna Levels -- 7. The Archaic Phase of the Hassuna Culture / N. Ya. Merpert -- 8. Yarim Tepe II: The Halaf Levels / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- a. The Upper Halaf Levels -- b. The Lower Halaf Levels -- 9. Yarim Tepe III: The Halaf Levels / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- a. Results of the 1978-1979 Field Season -- b. Results of the 1980 Field Season -- 10. Burial Practices of the Halaf Culture / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- 11. Yarim Tepe III: The Ubaid Levels / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- 12. The Earliest Evidence For Metallurgy in Ancient Mesopotamia / N. Ya. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev -- 13. Some Problems in the Archaeology of Mesopotamia in Light of Recent Research by the Soviet Expedition to Iraq / R. M. Munchaev -- 14. Mesopotamian Interaction Spheres / N. Yoffee
Summary
"Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from preagricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. The results of their work were published primarily in Soviet journals and in the English-language journals Sumer and Iraq." "This volume brings together translations of these Russian articles along with newly commissioned work to make the results of this research accessible for the first time to the Western world. In addition to eight articles available here for the first time in English, a concluding chapter by Norman Yoffee offers new insights on cultural interaction based on the research at hand." "The research conducted by the Soviets helped transform our knowledge of the early post-Paleolithic prehistory of Mesopotamia. This volume marks an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the beginning of agriculture - and evolution of societies - in the ancient Near East."--BOOK JACKET
Notes
Spine title: Early Mesopotamian civilization
Translations of papers originally published in Soviet journals 1973-1989
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-280) and index