Sumer The Scene is Set: Ubaid The Sumerians Eridu to Uruk      From Horticulture to Agriculture Wealth, Status and War      The Goddess in Transition Nammu: The Sumerian Great Mother Transcendent to Anthropomorphic The Underworld: Ereshkigal All photos, maps and other images can be clicked on to take you to the site where we found the image. If you own the copyright to any such image and do not want us to publicise it for you in this way, please contact the webmaster and it will be removed.

From Horticulture to Agriculture Review "From Horticulture to Agriculture". About 10,000 years ago, in the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (today Iraq), people began to grow crops and to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle. The change from subsistence patterns (hunting and gathering) to agriculture was the first ‘cultural revolution’ that impacted human behavior and societies. Assyrian Agricultural Technology, Gates of Nineveah web site, February 2012, Christopher Jones (Ph.D. student in Near Eastern history at Columbia University, NY.) This site provides an in-depth description of agricultural practices in Mesopotamia, with many excellent images. Visit the site to learn more.

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