Background
Adams, Robert McCormick was born on July 23, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert McCormick and Janet (Lawrence) Adams.
(An overview of archeological evidence collected around th...)
An overview of archeological evidence collected around the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates River. Includes a variety of diagrams and tables.
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The Evolution of Urban Societyis concerned with the presentation and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico. It provides a systematic comparison of institutional forms and trends of growth that are to be found in both of them. Emphasizing basic similarities in structure rather than the many acknowledged formal features by which each culture is rendered distinguishable from all others, it demonstrates that both societies can usefully be regarded as variants of a single process. Generalizing, comparative analyses of the origins of ancient civilizations in early anthropological studies emphasized the diversity of their cultures rather than their similarities. As this volume illustrates, early societies, in actuality, provide a significant example of broad regularities in human behavior. The emergence of states—of stratified, politically organized societies based upon a complex division of labor—is one of those great transformations that have punctuated human civilization. Adams shows why the study of societal evolution is so significant, and why it has remained a durable and attractive anthropological focus of interest. Originally published in 1966, The Evolution of Urban Society is based on a series of lectures at the University of Rochester in honor of the esteemed anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. It remains required reading for students of anthropology, ethnography, ancient civilizations, and world history. As Elizabeth Carter noted in Science at the time: "Adams's The Evolution of Urban Society set the agenda for contemporary research into early urbanism in the Mesopotamian region."
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Adams, Robert McCormick was born on July 23, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Robert McCormick and Janet (Lawrence) Adams.
Bachelor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1947. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1956.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pittsburgh, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hunter College, City University of New York, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College William and Mary, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 1992. LD (honorary), Harvard University, 1992.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Copenhagen, 2002.
Archaeological field training in, Jarmo, Iraq, 1950-1951;
archaeological field training in, Yucatan., Mexico, 1953;
field studies history irrigation and urban settlement, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran, 1956-1977;
reconnaissance and excavation ancient Mayan settlement patterns, Chiapas, Mexico, 1958-1961;
member of faculty department anthropology Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1955-1984;
associate professor Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1961-1962;
professor, University of Chicago, 1962-1984;
director Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, 1962-1968, 81-83;
dean division social science, University of Chicago, 1970-1974, 79-80;
provost, University of Chicago, 1982-1984;
secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1984-1994;
Homewood professor department anthropology and near eastern studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1984-1994. Adjunct Professor University of California, San Diego, since 1993. Fellow Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, 1995-1996.
Resident director Baghdad School, American Schools Oriental Research, 1968-1969. Chairman assembly behavioral and social science National Research Council, 1972-1976, chairman commission on behavioral and social science and education, 1987-1993.
( The Evolution of Urban Societyis concerned with the pr...)
( The Evolution of Urban Societyis concerned with the pr...)
( Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our tim...)
(An overview of archeological evidence collected around th...)
(xii + 241 pp. with 83 figs. (1 map loose as issued), 4to.)
(Frontis. + xvi + 187 pp. & 22 figs.. 4to.)
Trustee National Opinion Research Center, 1970—1994, National Humanities Center, 1976—1983, Russell Sage Foundation, 1978—1991, Santa Fe Institute, since 1984, American University Beirut, 1989—1994, Morehouse College, 1989—1994, German American Academy Council, 1993—1999. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Antiquaries London, Middle East Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Iraqi Academy (associate), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: National Academy of Sciences, Council Foreign Relations, American Philosophical Society, German Archaeol.
Institute, Society of America Archaeology (Distinguished Service award 1996), Sigma Xi.
Married Ruth Salzman Skinner, July 24, 1953 (deceased). 1 child Megan.