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What Makes Civilization?
The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West
Cultural Studies
David Wengrow
Oxford University Press 2010
Hardback 240 pages Illustrated 
0192805800 | 9780192805805 |  Product code: 88135  
From the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago, Mesopotamia and Egypt were transformed by a series of developments in farming, writing, cooking and city living which made the ancient Middle East 'the birthplace of civilization'. But in this book archaeologist David Wengrow considers the challenges these cultures pose to our assumptions about power, progress and civilization, and asks why they have come to symbolize the remote and exotic even though they laid the foundations of our own societies.
 
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