Exhibit: Central functions, Mesopotamia
Hans Nissen on early settlements
The Creation of the World, by Fernand Leger (Date: 1923)
Administration 9000-2000 BC, Uruk
From: Hans Jörg Nissen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000–2000 B.C., University of Chicago Press 1988
[Nissen is still one of the most regularly cited in contemporary texts.]