From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethno-archaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes - thei
Table of Contents: Editorial Preface List of Plates Bibliography and Abbreviations Chapter I, The Cartography of Mendes (Robert K. Holz) Chapter II, A New Map of Mendes (David Stieglitz) Chapter III,
This important account investigates the ruin of the Mesopotamian marshes?historically one of the world's most important wetland environments?along with the decimation of an area inhabited, since the t
