Seminar: The Chalcolithic Period in the Near East Tuesday, 24 March, Topic 2

Wright, Henry (1994 [1983]) Prestate political formations. In Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity, G. Stein und M. Rothman (ed.), pp. 67-84. Madison: Prehistory Press.

Stein, Gil (1994) Economy, ritual, and power in ‘Ubaid Mesopotamia. In Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity, G. Stein und M. Rothman (eds.), pp. 35-46. Madison: Prehistory Press.

Gurdil, Bekir (2010) Exploring social organizational aspects of the Ubaid communities: a case study of Değirmentepe in eastern Turkey. In Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and Integration in the Late Prehistoric Societies of the Middle East, Robert Carter and Graham Philip (eds.), pp. 361-375. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 63. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Pollock, Susan (2010) Practices of daily life in fifth-millennium B.C. Iran and Mesopotamia. In Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and Integration in the Late Prehistoric Societies of the Middle East, Robert Carter and Graham Philip (eds.), pp. 93-112. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 63. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Carter, Robert (2008) Excavations and Ubaid-Period Boat Remains at H3, As-Sabiyah (Kuwait). In Intercultural Relations Between South and Southwest Asia. Studies in Commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996), E. Olijdam & R.H. Spoor, eds., pp. 92-102. BAR International Series 1826.

Oates, Joan (1977) Seafaring Merchants of Ur? Antiquity 51: 221-234.

van Driel, Govert (2002) Jebel Aruda: Variations on a Late Uruk Domestic Theme. In Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East, J. Nicholas Postgate (ed.), pp. 191-205. Warminster: Aris & Phillips.

Frangipane, Marcella (2010) Arslantepe. Growth and collapse of an early centralised system: the archaeological evidence. In Economic Centralisation in Formative States. The Archaeological Reconstruction of the Economic System in 4^th Millennium Arslantepe, Marcella Frangipane (ed.), pp. 23-42. Rome: Sapienza Università di Roma Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell’ Antichità.

Frangipane, Marcella (2010) The political economy of the early central institutions at Arslantepe. Concluding remarks. In Economic Centralisation in Formative States. The Archaeological Reconstruction of the Economic System in 4^th Millennium Arslantepe, Marcella Frangipane (ed.), pp. 289-307. Rome: Sapienza Università di Roma.

see also: Adams, Robert McCormick (2005) Critique of Guillermo Algaze’s “The Sumerian Takeoff”. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 1(1). http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5m8043vf.

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Stein, Gil (2001) Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact. In Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation, Mitchell Rothman (ed.), pp. 265-305. Santa Fe: School of American Research.
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Rothman, Mitchell and Virginia Badler (2011) Contact and Development in Godin Period VI. In On the High Road. The History of Godin Tepe, Iran, Hilary Gopnik and Mitchell Rothman, with contributions by Robert Henrickson and Virginia Badler. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda. Read pp. 82-137.

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Wednesday, 1 April, Topic 7: Recording, accounting, and the invention of writing
Nissen, Hans (1986) The archaic texts from Uruk. World Archaeology 17(3): 317-334.
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Englund, Robert (1998) Texts from the Late Uruk Period. In Mesopotamien: Späturuk-Zeit und Frühdynastische Zeit, Josef Bauer, Robert Englund, and Manfred Krebernik, pp. 15-233. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 160/1. Freiburg: Universitätsverlag. Read pp. 15-41, 82-127.

Pollock, Susan and Reinhard Bernbeck (2000) And they said, let us make gods in our image: gendered ideologies in ancient Mesopotamia. In Reading the Body: Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record, Alison Rautman (ed.), pp. 150-64. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Balossi Restelli, Francesca (2012) Eating at home and ‘dining’ out? Commensalities in the Neolithic and Late Chalcolithic in the Near East. In Between Feasts and Daily Meals: Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces, Susan Pollock (ed.), e-Topoi­ Special Volume 2: 75-95.

D’Anna, Maria Bianca & Carolin Jauß (2015) Cooking at 4th Millennium BCE Chogha Mish (Iran) and Arslantepe (Turkey). Investigating the Social via the Material. In Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast, Susanne Kerner, Cynthia Chou & Morten Warmind (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Pollock, Susan (2012) Politics of food in early Mesopotamian centralized societies. Origini 24 n.s.: 153-168.

Potts, Daniel (2009) Bevel-rim bowls and bakeries: evidence and explanations from Iran and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 61: 1-23.