• Week 1 discussion: What/where is Mesopotamia, Near East, Middle East? Problems in, and the politics of, defining a region
  

• Week 2 discussion: Archaeology as a modern discipline and Mesopotamian archaeology
  

• Week 3 discussion: New approaches to archaeological fieldwork and Hodder’s reflexive method.
  

• Week 4 discussion: Mesopotamian settlement: cities as cult centers, urbanism, urbanization. Uruk and the cult of Inanna.
  

• Week 5 discussion: Royal tombs of Ur.
  

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