The times between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in Mesopotamia have for a long time
been interpreted as a period of stagnation. This volume is part of an emerging discourse that
challenges such assumptions. Focussing upon the northern parts of ancient Western Asia,
where most recent research has concentrated, an international group of researchers
demonstrates that Upper Mesopotamia underwent complex historical changes that we just
begin to grasp fully. The Late Neolithic was a critical phase of the history of the ancient�…