ANTH 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sumerian King List, Irkalla, Puabi
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4750-4334 bp - early dynastic sumer (first and second sumerian dynasties of. The sumerian calendar is not perfectly correlated to the modern one, potential to be off by a few years. 4112-4004 bp - final dynastic sumer (third sumerian dynasty of ur) Whole lower part of sumeria, between tigris and euphrates, covered in cities each roughly 30 - 50 km apart. flat landscape, basically cities are as far as you can bring water from one or both rivers. Babylonians used cuneiform, they were documentors of many things, and in their texts they left enough records to connect to historically understandable writing and work backwards, how we now understand sumerian cuneiform and proto cuneiform. In this period still cylinder/stamp seals. some are round and you roll it out for image. question of who could read comes about. By 4500-4600 bp writing down things that are not totally necessary to write down,
