Uruk The first city

Uruk : the First City is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southern Mesopotamia, the region providing the earliest evidence in world history related to these seminal developments. Contrasting his approach -- which has been influenced by V. Gordan Childe and by Marxist theory with the neo-evolutionist ideas of (especially) American anthropological theory, the author argues that the innovations that took place during th... >Voir plus