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This is a facsimile reprint of the trail-blazing book by David
Oates, originally published by the British Academy in 1968 and
out-of-print for too long. It is primarily the report of his survey
and excavation of sites in northern Iraq between 1954 and 1958, but
it is at the same time a memorial to the great explorer, Sir Aurel
Stein, whose pioneer fieldwork on the Roman frontiers in Iraq in
1938-39 provided the initial stimulus. (British School of
Archaeology in Iraq 2005)
Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in
northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of
long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial
capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is
the second of four volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak.
The construction level of Naram-Sin's Palace, discovered by
Mallowan in the 1930s, has been used as a point of chronological
reference to provide the first well-dated corpus of archaeological
material in northern Mesopotamia belonging to the second half of
the third millennium. The major Akkadian buildings at Tell Brak are
the first well-preserved examples to be discovered at any site, and
include a great ceremonial complex and a unique caravanserai that
housed the donkey caravans bringing metals from Anatolia. During
the ritual closure of these buildings beautiful silver jewellery
was deposited, along with numerous copper/bronze tools and the
skeletons of some of the caravan donkeys. Specialist reports
provide detailed historical, geomorphological, ceramic, faunal,
botanical, microstratigraphic and other data.
Like a quirky photographer, David Oates has captured moments from
life-funny, ironic wistful, poignant, odd, warm, happy and
beautiful-and distilled them into short, evocative poems. David is
the author of a previous book of similar poems, "Shifting with my
Sandwich Hand," and one of stories and poems, "Night of the
Potato." He has worked as a reporter, columnist, photographer,
comic-strip writer, teacher, poetry-slam organizer and emcee, and
editor and publisher of "Monkey," a magazine of satire and slam
poetry. He hosted the public-radio shows "Front Porch Stories" and
"Great Apes," and is currently the host and producer of Wordland on
WUGA, Athens, GA.
Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning
to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life
story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated
by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. In The Mountains
of Paris, he offers a technique of reimagining one's life story
that might be available to anyone. The present tense of the book
takes place during the seasons he spends in Paris, sharing an
artist';s residency. It is a rare opportunity to consider what it
means to be human, through time-stopping moments with music, art,
and deep history. The past tense of the book offers memories that
intrude into the bustle of Paris life: a Billy Graham crusade at
age thirteen, a mountain pass, a love, a loss. In long years of
mountaineering Oates fought the self-loathing which had infused him
as the gay kid in the Baptist pew. In The Mountains of Paris, he
ascends to a place of wonder through intense, personal narrative
encounter with the strangeness of being alive. In his searching,
luminous, and inimitable prose, Oates invites readers to share the
sense of awe awakened by a Vermeer painting, or the night sky, or
the echoing strains of music fading down a Paris street, lifting
the curtain on a cosmos filled with a terrifying yet beautiful
rightness.
The site of Tell al Rimah lies at the northern edge of the Iraqi
Jazirah. It is noted in particular for its elaborately ornamented
Old Babylonian temple and its unique evidence for third millennium
BC vaulting techniques. The site was occupied throughout the second
and third millennia BC and, briefly, during Late Assyrian times.
This volume presents the complete repertoire of second and first
millennium pottery, together with a summary of the history and
stratigraphy of the site. This material, which is both extensive
and unusually well dated owing to its association with cuneiform
evidence, constitutes by far the largest publication of Middle and
Late Bronze Age (Old Babylonian, Mitanni and Middle Assyrian)
pottery from Northern Mesopotamia. The book will be a valuable
resource of information for sites throughout the region.
An exploration of the ways in which the science of ecology has
provided a basis for a contemporary worldview that combines an
intuitive sense of wholeness with the validation of scientific
truth.
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