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02054aam a2200325 i 4500 001 81118CF07E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231108010026 008 200929s2021 enkab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781789144154 020 $a 1789144159 035 $a (OCoLC)1198017871 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCLCF $d PAU $d B@L $d SFR $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IAK $d JYJ $d SILO 043 $a a-sy--- $a a-sy--- 100 1 $a Collins, Paul $q (Paul Thomas), $e author. 245 14 $a The Sumerians / $c Paul Collins. 264 1 $a London, UK : $b Reaktion Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 214 pages : $b illustrations (some colour), maps ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Lost civilizations 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-204) and index. 505 0 $a Chronology -- 1. Origins -- 2. The Sumerian Problem -- 3. Invasion, Occupation and Ownership -- 4. The First Cities -- 5. The First Writing -- 6. Back to the Beginning. 520 $a "The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past."-- $c Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Sumerians. 651 0 $a Iraq $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a Syria $x Antiquities. 830 0 $a Lost civilizations (Reaktion Books (Firm)) 941 $a 1 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20231108010329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=81118CF07E0411EE85718D4F22ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search