Alain Le Brun (with the contribution of Naomi F. Miller), – Suse. Sondage stratigraphique de l’Acropole I couches 21 à 18 (campagnes 1977-1979)

As Pascal Butterlin recalled a few years ago in the introduction to an article, there was a time when the city of Uruk was not considered, on the basis of an antonomasia and a somewhat stereotyped topos, to be the centre of the homonym cultural entity. In the 4th millennium BCE, this entity was the driver of the first urbanisation in Greater Mesopotamia, by the diffusion of an organisational system of unprecedented complexity. But, at that time the Euphrates was not yet considered the gateway...