User:Steve Quinn/The Uruk World System

The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization nonfiction ancient history book written by Guillermo Algaze and published in 1993 by the University of Chicago Press.

Chapters
Below are the chapter titles of this book:
 * 1) Introduction
 * 2) Uruk sites in the Susiana plain of Khuzestan
 * 3) Uruk settlements in the Syro-Mesopotamian plains and surrounding highlands
 * 4) The function of Uruk settlements in the Syro-Mesopotamian plains and surrounding highlands
 * 5) The late Chalcolithic period in Syro-Mesopotamia
 * 6) Social change in the northern periphery and the collapse of the Uruk expansion
 * 7) Conclusions
 * 8) The Uruk expansion : new interpretations and new data