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Anthropology

Lugal Zaggesi

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8. 5000 years ago the population of Uruk in modern day Iraq

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Sun Aug 4, 2013, 06:18 PM

Aug 2013

was 40,000 people (biggest city in the world). They had already invented cuneiform writing, and the Bronze Age had started.

Artistically carved stones are nice - but they didn't get the Civilization ball rolling.

Sacred Eanna Precinct in Uruk. Sumer, Mesopotamia, 3000 BC.

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5,000-year-old Neolithic art found in Orkney dig [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2013 OP

That area looks amazing. There are wonderful pictures in Google images, Judi Lynn Aug 2013 #1

I'm familiar with some of the archealogical sites in that area theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #2

I really got lost in that site. alfredo Aug 2013 #5

Orkney Archaelogical Society theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #3

There are so many fabulous photos theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #17

And now we now the origination of Argyle. matthews Aug 2013 #4

I was wondering where I had left that stone Tyrs WolfDaemon Aug 2013 #6

That's actually pretty cool theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #7

I hope you are referring to the Odin's Eye one Tyrs WolfDaemon Aug 2013 #11

I think it's very cool that you're creating these carvings theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #13

that was YOU? the woman was a cousin--she thought you were kind of cute, but a bit flaky. niyad Aug 2013 #15

I wonder which side of me inherited the flaky part from Tyrs WolfDaemon Aug 2013 #16

5000 years ago the population of Uruk in modern day Iraq Lugal Zaggesi Aug 2013 #8

Well of course theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #9

Certainly some areas were, and are, very inhospitable Lugal Zaggesi Aug 2013 #10

Oh, I agree they probably had no idea of the "outside world" theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #12

I've wondered about that too. SunSeeker Aug 2013 #18

I think you'll find this interesting theHandpuppet Aug 2013 #19

k and r--how beautiful. will have to read more fully later. niyad Aug 2013 #14