Before civilization a non-evolutionist history of community-making in Southwest Asia
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2025-04-16
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Ajakirja pealkiri
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Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
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See doktoriväitekiri on kriitiline uurimistöö eelarvamuste kohta, millele toetutakse elitaarsust, ebavõrdsust, keerukust ja muid lähedasi teemasid käsitlevates teooriates ning narratiivides, mis mõjutavad Edela-Aasia ning Mesopotaamia tsivilisatsiooni eelajaloo mõistmise mudeleid. Tegemist on diakroonilise analüüsiga, mis keskendub paikse eluviisi (e kogukonna loomise) tekkimisele alates selle algusest. Põllumajandust, karjakasvatust, keraamikat, metallurgiat ja kirjasüsteemi käsitletakse kui ühiselu kogemuse tagajärgi, millega kaasnesid katsetamine, kohanemine ning samuti valikud. Koostöö, ränne ja valikuline edasikandumine ehk matkimine on kogu analüüsi kestel tähtsad tegurid ning kehtivaks kuulutatakse elukorralduse heterarhiline mudel esimeste ühiselu vormide puhul, mida tavapäraselt uuritakse protourbanismi katusmõiste all. Töö käsitleb kriitiliselt Uruki fenomeni. Doktoriöös väidetakse, et paljud Uruki ajastu nn kolooniad peavad olema asutatud Susiana linnadest lahkunud inimeste poolt.
This dissertation is a critical examination of the biases embedded in theories and narratives revolving around elitism, inequality, complexity, and similar themes, affecting the prehistory of Southwest Asia and the origins of Mesopotamian civilization models. It is a diachronic analysis focusing on sedentism (community-making) since its beginnings. Agriculture, pastoralism, ceramics, metallurgy and the writing system are approached as consequences of the experience of living together, entailing experimentation, adaptations, and choices. Collaboration, migration, and selective transmission or emulation are important factors throughout the analysis, and a heterarchical model of organization is postulated for the first aggregations that are conventionally studied under the umbrella of ‘protourbanism’. The Uruk phenomenon model is critically reviewed. It is argued that many of the so-called colonies of the Uruk period must have been founded by peoples leaving the cities in the Susiana.
This dissertation is a critical examination of the biases embedded in theories and narratives revolving around elitism, inequality, complexity, and similar themes, affecting the prehistory of Southwest Asia and the origins of Mesopotamian civilization models. It is a diachronic analysis focusing on sedentism (community-making) since its beginnings. Agriculture, pastoralism, ceramics, metallurgy and the writing system are approached as consequences of the experience of living together, entailing experimentation, adaptations, and choices. Collaboration, migration, and selective transmission or emulation are important factors throughout the analysis, and a heterarchical model of organization is postulated for the first aggregations that are conventionally studied under the umbrella of ‘protourbanism’. The Uruk phenomenon model is critically reviewed. It is argued that many of the so-called colonies of the Uruk period must have been founded by peoples leaving the cities in the Susiana.
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