Lasting Alliances and Emerging Competition: Economic Developments in Early Mesopotamia |
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| Institution: | 1. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK;2. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Box 1837/60, George Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA;3. Centre for Archaeological and Forensic Analysis, Cranfield University, Shrivenham SN6 8LA, UK;4. Physics Department and Center for Research in Nano-Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, C/Esteve Terrades 8, 08860, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, I argue that archaeologists have overlooked variability within the category of "prestate Mesopotamian societies" by focusing exclusively on political organization. If economic and not only political criteria were used to evaluate developments in early Mesopotamia, a different perception of prehistory and history would result. Mesopotamian societies in the 6th millennium B.C. can be shown to be politically "stable" but economically changing. The analysis of economic processes is based on the structural Marxist concept of "modes of production." |
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