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Theory and practice in the study of Mesopotamian domestic space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paolo Brusasco
Paolo Brusasco*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Turin, via Giolitti 21/E, Turin 10123, Italy
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This study compares the results of space syntax analysis of houses in Babylonian Ur with similar analyses on modern households in Baghdad and among the Ashanti. The social organisations identified were then compared with the written evidence for Ur surviving on site in cuneiform tablets. This opportunity to examine spatial, ethnographic and documentary evidence together offers a deep reading of Ur society.

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IraqUr housessocial psychologynetwork chartsethnographyfamily archives
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 142 - 157
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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