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Experts say that the findings lend support to the theory that early Mesopotamian cities developed as a result of grassroots organisation, rather than a mandate from a central authority.

No central planning, no zoning? They probably didn't even have building inspectors. How did they manage???

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/healthscience/snbattle.php

Signs of an ancient clash unearthed in Syria

Expanded excavations at Tell Brak, Habuba Kabira, Hamoukar and elsewhere in northern Syria, Algaze said, have revealed that some northern cities were larger at an earlier time than was expected. And ample evidence is being found for specialized industries like the obsidian works at Hamoukar...

...Research at Hamoukar has been under way since 1999. The Chicago-Syria team has now determined that the 40- acre, or 16-hectare, heart of the city was surrounded by a 10-foot-, or 2.5-meter- thick wall. The main mound covering ruins extends over 260 acres, and to the south, pottery and obsidian flakes and cores are scattered over some 700 acres.

Reichel, the American co-director of the project, said that excavations in the recent season turned up more evidence of “how the city looked the day it was destroyed.” In a swift and intense attack, he said, “buildings collapsed, burning out of control, burying everything in them under a vast pile of rubble.”...

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/03.16/11-canal.html

Satellite images of Tell Brak, Syria, led archaeologist Jason Ur to a deeper understanding of how ancient road networks moved food into the city.