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Mesopotamian Civilizations

Collection created December 2023

23 Total Resources

23 resources. Showing results 1 through 10.

Chadwick/First Civilizations, 9. Science and technology
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- ancient egypt
- mesopotamia
- divination
- astrology
- calendar
- zodiac
- horoscopes
- pyramids
- medicinal practice
- magic
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 8. Mythology and religion in Mesopotamia
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- mesopotamia
- gilgamesh
- flood myth
- uruk
- animal-human relationships
- nature
- immortality
Baines/The Disappearance of Writing Systems, 4. Increasingly Redundant
Uploaded February, 2023
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- book chapter
- the disappearance of writing systems
- ancient near east
- writing systems
- literacy
- communication
- cultural attrition
- cuneiform
- babylonia
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 5. Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- mesopotamia
- amorites
- migration
- first babylonian dynasty
- hammurabi
- kingdom of mari
- social stratification
- law texts
- laws of hammurabi
- witchcraft
- family relationships
- women
- gender norms
- hittite
- kassites
- regulation
- administration
“Big Gods” in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Cultural Evolution of Supernatural Protectors
Uploaded July, 2023
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- journal article
- journal of cognitive historiography
- gods
- supernatural agent
- punishment
- theories of religion
- mesopotamia
- marduk
- cultural production
- big gods theory
- social formation
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 1. History and archaeology as tools
Uploaded June, 2023
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- first civilizations
- book chapter
- archaeology
- mesopotamia
- ancient egypt
- writing systems
- calendar
- dating methods
- astronomical
- lists
- annals
- dynastic succession
- record-keeping
- history writing
- archaeological methodology
Chadwick/First Civilizations, 10. Egypt
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- first civilizations
- the nile
- geography
- pre-dynastic
- ancient egypt
- trade
- rosetta stone
- unification of egypt
Antes/Contemporary Views, 7. Myth, Space, and the History of Religions
Uploaded November, 2022
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- book chapter
- contemporary views on comparative religion
- comparison
- wilderness mythology
- hebrew bible
- mesopotamia
- early christianity
- methodology
Hezser & Edelman/Use and Dissemination, 2. Public Lamentation
Uploaded March, 2023
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- book chapter
- the use and dissemination of religious knowledge in antiquity
- mesopotamia
- populace
- non-elite
- public religion
- lament
- ritual
Milevski & Levy/Framing Archaeology, 6. Social Theories, Technical Identities, Cultural Boundaries
Uploaded June, 2023
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- book chapter
- framing archaeology in the near east
- ancient near east
- archaeology
- archaeological methodology
- colonization
- technology
- mesopotamia
- traditions
- chaîne opératoire
- pottery
- archaeological theories
- transmission
- knowledge
- networks
- boundaries
- social formation
- technical identity
- cultural diffusion

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