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      The Cambridge World History: Volume 3, Early Cities in Comparative Perspective, 4000 BCE-1200 CE

      Comparison of early and ancient cities as arenas of performance, writing and information technology in early cities, how early cities transformed their landscapes, how power was created and resisted in…

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      The Cambridge World History

      Comparison of early and ancient cities as arenas of performance, writing and information technology in early cities, how early cities transformed their landscapes, how power was created and resisted in…

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      Myths of the Archaic State: Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations

      Norman Yoffee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

      Norman Yoffee challenges the classical archaeological theory that a state’s evolution reflects universal forces by presenting more complex models for the evolution of civilizations. A ground-breaking work that challenges the…

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      Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

      Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

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      Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda?

      This volume assesses current archaeological theories and considers how they relate to our understanding of the past.

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      Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

      Challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation.

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      Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

      Veysel Donbaz,Norman Yoffee

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      Old Babylonian Texts from Kish Conserved in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums

      Veysel Donbaz,Norman Yoffee

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      Excavating Asian History: Interdisciplinary Studies in Archaeology and History

      Norman Yoffee,Bradley L. Crowell

      Although history and archaeology each seek to elucidate the past, both sets of data are incomplete and ambiguous and thus open to multiple readings that invite contradictory interpretations of human…

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      Early Stages in the Evolution of Mesopotamian Civilization: Soviet Excavations in Northern Iraq

      Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from pre-agricultural times through the beginnings of early civilization. This volume brings together translations of Russian articles along…

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      Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research

      Norman Yoffee

      Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that all history becomes subjective, that, in fact, properly there is no history, only biography. Today, Emerson’s observation is hardly revolutionary for archaeologists; it has…

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      Archaic States

      One of the most challenging problems facing contemporary archaeology concerns the operation and diversity of ancient states. This volume addresses how ancient states were structured and how they operated, an…

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