TY - BOOK ID - 32398957 TI - Mobile pastoralism and the formation of Near Eastern civilizations : weaving together society PY - 2011 SN - 9781107666078 1107666074 9780521764438 9780511895012 9781139336468 1139336460 9781139338202 113933820X 0511895011 0521764432 9781139339780 1139333976 1107217253 1139339788 128039384X 9786613571762 1139337335 1139341367 9781280393846 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pastoral systems KW - Migration, Internal KW - Sedentary behavior KW - Social archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Pastoralisme KW - Migrations intérieures KW - Comportement sédentaire KW - Archéologie sociale KW - Archéologie KW - History KW - Methodology. KW - Histoire KW - Méthodologie KW - To 1500 KW - Iraq KW - Middle East KW - Irak KW - Moyen-Orient KW - Antiquities. KW - Civilization KW - Antiquités KW - Civilisation KW - Inactivity, Physical KW - Physical inactivity KW - Human behavior KW - Herding systems KW - Pastoralism KW - Animal culture KW - Livestock systems KW - Herders KW - Herding KW - Internal migration KW - Mobility KW - Population geography KW - Internal migrants KW - Methodology KW - Nomads KW - Nomadic peoples KW - Nomadism KW - Pastoral peoples KW - Vagabonds KW - Wanderers KW - Persons KW - Sedentarization KW - Social Sciences KW - Archeology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32398957 AB - "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"-- ER -