Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-cphqk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-11T02:50:06.205Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Investigations on the Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh, 1990

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Susan Pollock ,
Caroline Steele  and
Melody Pope
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

A second full season of archaeological investigations was undertaken at the Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh in the spring of 1990. The aims of this season's work were to begin to explore in some detail variations in production, exchange, and consumption of subsistence and craft goods within the Uruk community. Both the aims and the strategies employed were outgrowths of our previous work at the site which had sought a broad understanding of the kinds of activities in which the community as a whole was engaged (Pollock 1987, 1990a, 1990b).

The purpose of this report is to present briefly the results of the 1990 season as they appear to us shortly after leaving the field. More in-depth analysis and interpretation will be offered in subsequent publications.

As before, our field strategies included a mix of techniques. Surface mapping and surface scraping were utilized to provide extensive coverage of the site and a broad view of community layout and distributions of activities. In contrast, excavation offers more limited exposures but also far more precise and detailed information on contexts.

Type
Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 53 , 1991 , pp. 59 - 68
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References Cited

Adams, Robert McC., 1981. Heartland of Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Amiet, Pierre, 1980. La glyptique mesopotamienne archaique. Paris: Editions du CNRS.Google Scholar
Johnson, Gregory, 1973. Local Exchange and Early State Development in Southwestern Iran. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers no. 51.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, Gregory, 1987. The Changing Organization of Uruk Administration in the Susiana Plain. In The Archaeology of Western Iran, Hole, Frank (ed.), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 107–39.Google Scholar
Johnson, Gregory, in press. Late Uruk in Greater Mesopotamia: Expansion or Collapse? In L'Interpretazione funzionale dei dati in Paletnologia, Palmieri, A. (ed.), Rome: Origini.Google Scholar
Lattimore, Owen, 1951. Inner Asian Frontiers of China. 2nd edition. NY: American Geographic Society.Google Scholar
Matthews, R. J., and Postgate, J. N., 1987. Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1985–6. Iraq 49: 91–119.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nissen, Hans, 1970. Grabung in den Quadraten K/L XII in Uruk-Warka. Baghdader Mitteilungen 5:101–91.Google Scholar
Nissen, Hans, Damerow, Peter, and Englund, Robert, 1990. Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorderen Orient. Franzbecker.Google Scholar
Pearson, G. W., Pilcher, J. R., Baillie, M. G. L., Corbett, D. M., and Qua, F., 1986. High precision 14C measurement of Irish oaks to show the natural 14C variation from A.D. 1840 to 5210 B.C. Radiocarbon 28 (2b): 911–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pollock, Susan, 1987. Abu Salabikh, The Uruk Mound 1985–6. Iraq 49: 121–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pollock, Susan, 1990a. Archaeological Investigations on the Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh, Iraq 52: 85–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pollock, Susan 1990b. Political Economy as Viewed from the Garbage Dump: Jemdet Nasr Occupation at the Uruk Mound, Abu Salabikh. Paléorient 16/1: 57–75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Postgate, J. N., 1983. The West Mound Surface Clearance. Abu Salabikh Excavations, Vol. 1. British School of Archaeology in Iraq.Google Scholar
Postgate, J. N., and Moon, J., 1982. Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1981. Iraq 44: 103–36.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Postgate, J. N., and Moorey, P. R. S., 1976. Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1975. Iraq 38: 133–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkinson, Tony, 1990. Early channels and landscape development around Abu Salabikh, a preliminary report. Iraq 52: 75–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilson, Karen, 1986. Nippur: The Definition of a Mesopotamian Gamdat Nasr Assemblage. In Gamdat Nasr Period or Regional Style?, Finkbeiner, U. and Rollig, W. (eds.), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 57–89.Google Scholar