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Early Urban Developers Don't Fit Mesopotamian Mold (3 of 7)

Caption: Archaeologists collecting surface artifacts on the Tell Brak outer settlement complex. The flat plains below the high central mound, which today are the domain of cereal agriculture and sheep and goat herds, hosted a dense urban fabric in the fourth millennium BCE. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Aug. 31, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Jason Ur and colleagues of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., was titled "Early Urban Development in the Near East."

Credit: Photo provided by Jason A. Ur, via Science-AAAS.

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