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Sumerians, Semites, and the Origin of Copper-working1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

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M. de Morgan's remarkable discovery of early civilizations in the possession of painted pottery and copper at Susa in 1897 has remained for about twenty years an isolated addition to our knowledge. But the explorations of the last years have suddenly revealed its real import. In the two civilizations which he found succeeding each other at Susa there seem to be represented large cultural provinces. Their ultimate importance lies furthermore in the fact that they have both contributed elements towards the great culture of the Plain of the Two Rivers, and it seems at present possible, without allowing hypotheses to play an illegitimate part in the argument, to define with some precision the respective elements and their relation to the three great historical problems for which the title of this paper stands.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1928

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