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1. Introduction 2. Geographic setting and environment 3. Settlement patterns 4. Making a living: tributary economics of the fifth and fourth millennia 5. A changing way of life: the oikos-based economy of the third millennium 6. The growth of bureaucracy 7. Ideology and images of power 8. Death and the ideology of community.