Venue: Laby Theatre, Physics South
Presenters: Professor Paul Zimansky, Professor Elizabeth Stone
The World’s earliest cities are to be found in southern Mesopotamia, initiating an urban tradition that was to last for some four thousand years. The remains of these cities have been the focus of archaeological excavations for more than a century, providing details of their institutional structures and the residences of the broader population, both supplemented by documents written on clay.
Professor Elizabeth Stone and Professor Paul Zimansky have initiated new archaeological excavations at the celebrated southern Mesopotamian city of Ur, where they are employing modern technologies to expand the exploration of a neighborhood of private houses uncovered by Sir Leonard Woolley in the early twentieth century CE.
This lecture will use the data that has resulted from these projects, including Stone and Zimansky's own fieldwork at the cities of Ur and Mashkan-shapir, to describe how people lived some four thousand years ago in what is now modern Iraq.
Elizabeth Stone is a Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York. Her research has been directed towards the ways in which urban structures reflect the underlying social, political and economic organization of their civilizations.
Paul Zimansky is a Professor of Ancient History at Stony Brook University, New York. His research concerns are early empires and states of the ancient Near East, particularly how governing institutions influenced the social and economic behaviour of their inhabitants.
IMAGE: Standard of Ur, British Museum
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6377-urban-life-in-ancient-mesopotamia
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