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Excerpts and Definitions and Addendums: Godin Tepe sits astride the Khorasan Road, historically the most important of the east-west routes across the Zagros Mountains into Iran, following the course of the Diyala River Valley ..... Godin Tepe is strategically situated in the southeastern corner of the Kangavar Valley near a natural entrance cut by the Gamas Ab River and thus in a position to control overland traffic across the valley. On the highest point of the mound was uncovered a small fort surrounded by a larger and apparently otherwise indigenous settlement. The fort appears to have been inhabited by settlers from the Uruk world, since the associated assemblage included a variety of ceramic types ......
The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion Early Mesopotamian Civilization
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