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New research into the northern Mesopotamian site of Shakhi Kora seeks to explain why early cities there failed before reemerging 1500 years later. Archaeological evidence shows that the large-scale production, processing and distribution of food took place at various settlements in Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia. Such an activity is normally associated with a public institution and a sociopolitical hierarchy. However, such institutions didn't survive these early experiments. The study published in the journal Antiquity discusses excavations in Area 1 at Shakhi Kora, a part of the settlement that was repeatedly used for large-scale food production and community rituals for around one thousand years.
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00:53 Late Chalcolithic Iraq
03:07 Shakhi Kora
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Glatz C., Del Bravo F., Chelazzi F., et al. There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region (2024). Antiquity.
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Images related to Shakhi Kora, credit: Glatz, C., et al in the paper referenced above.
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Early elite iconography, credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen
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Uruk expansion theory mapped, credit: Zunkir
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White Temple ziggurat at Uruk-Warka, credit: tobeytravels
New research into the northern Mesopotamian site of Shakhi Kora seeks to explain why early cities there failed before reemerging 1500 years later. Archaeological evidence shows that the large-scale production, processing and distribution of food took place at various settlements in Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia. Such an activity is normally associated with a public institution and a sociopolitical hierarchy. However, such institutions didn't survive these early experiments. The study published in the journal Antiquity discusses excavations in Area 1 at Shakhi Kora, a part of the settlement that was repeatedly used for large-scale food production and community rituals for around one thousand years.
#ancientcivilizations #ancienthistory #mesopotamia
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:53 Late Chalcolithic Iraq
03:07 Shakhi Kora
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✨ REFERENCES
Glatz C., Del Bravo F., Chelazzi F., et al. There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region (2024). Antiquity.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Images related to Shakhi Kora, credit: Glatz, C., et al in the paper referenced above.
CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Early elite iconography, credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Uruk expansion theory mapped, credit: Zunkir
CC BY-SA 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
White Temple ziggurat at Uruk-Warka, credit: tobeytravels
