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| Other authors / contributors: | Castel, Corinne, editor.
Meyer, Jan-Waalke, editor.
Quenet, Philippe, editor.
Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux (Lyon, France), host institution.
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| ISBN: | 9782503551838
2503551831
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| Notes: | "An international conference entitled 'Origines, structure, développement et sociologie des villes circulaires de Syrie au Bronze ancien / Origins, Structure, Development and Sociology of Circular Cities of Early Bronze Age Syria' took place in Lyon, at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée-Jean Pouilloux, from 21 to 23 November 2013"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Text in English with some contributions in French; abstracts in English and French.
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| Summary: | "This volume corresponds to the acts of a conference that closes the international interdisciplinary research project Badiyah, directed by Corinne Castel and Jan-Waalke Meyer (Directors of the Tell Al-Rawda and Tell Chuera archaeological missions). Both sites illustrate the importance of the 3rd millennium BCE 'circular cities' discovered in today's Syria. These pre-planned cities were fortified and organized following a concentric and radial urban pattern. They represent a particular form of the endogenous process of urbanization that appeared in this region when the first cities and territorial states emerged. The main results obtained from these two sites are compared to other Syrian 'circular cities' of the Early Bronze Age. Twenty-nine contributions enable us to reassess the process of urbanization in the Near East and to question the Southern Mesopotamian model as the unique cradle of urban civilization."--Back cover.
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