Preludes to Urbanism : The Late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia / edited by Augusta McMahon, Harriet Crawford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Harriet Crawford and Augusta McMahon -- Part I. Early Urban Landscapes -- Chapter 1. Travels in Edin : Deltaic Resilience and Early Urbanism in Greater Mesopotamia / Jennifer R. Pournelle and Guillermo Algaze -- Chapter 2. Hollow Ways and Routes Around Tell Brak / Tony Wilkinson, Charles French and Miranda Semple -- Chapter 3. Urban Form at Tell Brak Across Three Millennia / Jason Ur -- Chapter 4. From Village to City, the Wrong Question? / Jean-Louis Huot -- Part II. Production and Consumption in Early Urbanism -- Chapter 5. Fifth-millennium BC Obsidian Production and Consumption in Area TW, Tell Brak / Lamya Khalidi -- Chapter 6. The Political Economy of the Upper Khabur in the Late Chalcolithic 1-2 : Ceramic Mass-production, Standardization and Specialization / Salam Al Kuntar and Khaled Abu Jayyab -- Chapter 7. Early Uruk Ceramic Assemblages : Cultural Relations in Greater Mesopotamia During the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Millenia BC / Henry T. Wright -- Chapter 8. Exotic Animal Consumption at Tell Brak in the Mid-fourth Millennium BC / Jill Weber -- Part III. Near Eastern Neighbours and Early Urbanism -- Chapter 9. Iran and Uruk Mesopotamia : Chronologies and Connections in the Fourt Millenum BC / Cameron A. Petrie -- Chapter 10. Contacts between Mesopotamia and the Caucasus in the Fourth-First Half on the Third Millennium BC / Rouf Munchaev and Shahmardan Amirov -- Part IV. Conflict in Early Urbanism -- Chapter 11. State Warfare and Pre-state Violent Conflict : Battle's Aftermath at Late Chalcolithic Tell Brak / Agusta McMahon -- Summary / McGuire Gibson.

This volume explores early Complex Society and nascent Urbanism, based in studies of Mesopotamia during the Fifth–Fourth Millennia BC. Urbanism in the Near East has traditionally been located in Late Fourthmillennium BC Southern Mesopotamia (South Iraq) ; but Recent Excavations and Surveys in Northeast Syria and Southeast Turkey have identified a distinctively Northern Mesopotamian Variant of this Development, which can be dated to the Early Fourth Millennium BC. The Authors use multiscalar Approaches, including Material Culturebased Studies, Settlement Archaeology and Regional Surveys, to Achieve an Understanding of the Dynamics of Early Urbanism across this Key Region. The Book Reveals the Variety of Social, Economic and Political Relationships that are Implicit within an Urban Centre and an Urbanized Society.northeast Syria from 2006 to 2011.