Private space, public space and connected architectural developments throughout the early periods of Mesopotamian historydoi:10.1524/aofo.2002.29.2.307UWESIEVERTSENDe GruyterAltorientalische Forschungen
Prehistory is a term for all eras prior to the development of the earliest writing systems. The common prehistory definition suggests that ''history'' began around 3600 BCE when ancient Mesopotamians developed writing. Homo sapiens, the modern human species, have existed in their current form for...
School of Archaeology, Classics & Ancient History, University of Sydney, 2006, NSW, Australia D. T. Potts About this article Cite this article Potts, D.T. The Late Prehistoric, Protohistoric, and Early Historic periods in Eastern Arabia (ca. 5000–1200 B.C.).J World Prehist7, 163–212...
Cave painting‚ fertility goddesses‚ megalithic structures Lascaux Cave Painting‚ Woman of Willendorf‚ Stonehenge Ice Age ends (10‚000 b.c.–8‚000 b.c.); New Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000 b.c.–2500 b.c.) Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.) Warrior art...
Third-millennium (BCE) Mesopotamian mathematics seems to have possessed a very restricted technical terminology. However, with the sudden flourishing of supra-utilitarian mathematics during the Old Babylonian period, in particular its second half (1800-1600 BCE) a rich terminology ...
The conclusion offers thoughts about current debates and the trajectory of future studies.doi:10.1515/janeh-2016-0009LenziAlanDe GruyterJournal of Ancient Near Eastern History
With the onset of the Sargonic Period, ideas and practices of interstate relations in the Ancient Near East were discerned in the Mesopotamian documents of that period.doi:10.1163/157180505774763789AltmanAmnonJournal of the History of International Law...
The twenty-eight “lunar stations” (ershiba xiu 二十八宿) are unique in Chinese intellectual history in that they served as functional equivalents for Indian nakṣatras, which are also a type of lunar station (or mansion), but in practice these were quite different from the comparable Chin...
The study of temperatures used in firing ancient Mesopotamian pottery. In Science and Archaeology; Brill, R., Ed.; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press: Cambridge, MA, USA, 1971; pp. 65–79. [Google Scholar] Testolini, V. Ceramic Technology and Cultural Change in Sicily from the ...