This work offers a treatment of the antecedents and first florescence of early state and urban societies in the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia over nearly thr... » 

This work offers a treatment of the antecedents and first florescence of early state and urban societies in the alluvial lowlands of Mesopotamia over nearly three millennia, from approximately 5000 to 2100 BC. Susan Pollock's approach is explicitly anthropological. «