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Local Exchange and Early State Development in Southwestern Iran

Gregory Alan Johnson
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Gregory Alan Johnson uses the results of his archaeological survey of the Susiana plain of Iran to analyze settlement patterns in four Uruk occupational phases. Includes more than 100 maps, figures, tables, and photographs.
  • Contents
  • I. Introduction
    • Operational Definition of the State
    • Decision Hierarchies and General Societal Complexity
    • Theories of the Origin of the State
    • Central Place Theory, Functional Hierarchies, and State Settlement Patterns
  • II. The 1970-71 Susiana Survey
    • Geomorphology, Hydrology, and Environment of the Susiana Plain
    • Survey Method
    • Method of Metrical Analysis of Ceramics
    • Uruk Relative and Absolute Chronology
    • Areal Size and Population Estimates for Terminal Susa A and Uruk Settlements
    • Settlement Pattern Maps
  • III. Analysis of the Settlement Patterns
    • Terminal Susa A
    • Early Uruk
    • Middle Uruk
    • Late Uruk
  • IV. Summary and Conclusions
  • Appendices
    • I. Type Counts: 1970-71 Survey
    • II. Grid Coordinates for Determination of Site-to-Site Distances
    • III. Ceramic Measurements
  • Bibliography
  • Plates I-XX
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Published: 1973
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-949098-07-5 (paper)
  • 978-1-949098-69-3 (ebook)
Series
  • Anthropological Papers Series
Subject
  • Archaeology
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