Urban Ideologies and Demographic Revolutions in Ancient Mesopotamia
Author(s): Patricia Wattenmaker
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Dramatic demographic growth is a hallmark of the urban process, yet reasons for population growth in emerging urban systems are not well understood. This paper draws on archaeological and textual evidence pertaining to ideology of the house and cultural values to explore why populations increased so dramatically in third millennium Mesopotamia. Additional consideration of some of the limiting factors in population growth help provide insight into the complex relationships among population growth, prestige building and inequalities in some early urban societies of Southwest Asia.
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Urban Ideologies and Demographic Revolutions in Ancient Mesopotamia. Patricia Wattenmaker. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467820)
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Keywords
General
Bronze Age
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Ideology
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Urbanism
Geographic Keywords
Asia: Southwest Asia and Levant
Spatial Coverage
min long: 26.191; min lat: 12.211 ; max long: 73.477; max lat: 42.94 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 33636