Ebook: Household and state in upper Mesopotamia : specialized economy and the social uses of goods in an early complex society

"Analyzing evidence from a town site in southeastern Turkey that dates to the third millennium B.C., Patricia Wattenmaker uses patterns in the production of ceramics, stone tools, textiles, and food to explore a fundamental archaeological and anthropological question: why did craft specialization intensify concurrently with complex, urban societies?"--Jacket.