Artefacts of Complexity: Tracking the Uruk in the Near East (Iraq Archaeological Reports) (no. 5) by J. Nicholas Postgate

by Nicholas Postgate

This volume includes 11 contributions from participants at the conference of the same name held in Manchester in November 1998. They cover the geographical span of the Uruk phenomenon, with emphasis on the material evidence as provided by the artefacts. The volume thus presents a readable and up to date summary of many of the most important sites and issues relating to this crucial formative period at the threshold of the historical civilizations of the ancient Near East.

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First published November 1, 2002

About the author

John Nicholas Postgate

Nicholas Postgate is a British Assyriologist. He is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
From 1982 to 1985, he was a university lecturer in the history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East. He was promoted to Reader in Mesopotamian studies in 1985. He was promoted to Professor of Assyriology in 1994.
He undertook excavations at Abu Salabikh, a Sumerian city in Iraq, from 1975 to 1989. From 1994 to 1998, he was the director of excavations at Kilise Tepe, a Bronze and Iron Age site in Turkey.