Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution ... And personal wealth took the form of shells or other objects ...

but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time -- about 5,000 years ago -- in an arc that extended from Mesopotamia ...

These difficulties began in ancient Mesopotamia, the Indus river valley ... condition for capturing the universality of the urban form”. Cities, she concludes, are often alike because they ...

Social inequality was central to Mesopotamia’s urban ascent, with a hierarchy of ... in several parts of the world as alternative form of early city life. Ukrainian megasites were built by ...

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Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The ...