Journal Article10.2307/1359726
On the Alleged "Pre-Sumerian Substratum"
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TL;DR: In this paper, it has been concluded that sea-levels were probably lower in the Ubaid period, which changes absolutely the traditional picture of that marshy and largely uninhabitable early southern Mesopotamia.
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Abstract: period to the Late Uruk period seems clear (1960: 44-46). In fact, in recent years the evidence concerning sea-levels has been reviewed (Sanlaville 1989; Potts 1997: 33-41), and it has been concluded that they were probably lower in the Ubaid period, which changes absolutely the traditional picture of that marshy and largely uninhabitable early southern Mesopotamia. As Oates argues (1993), southern Mesopotamia was probably far
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