TY  - BOOK
AU  -  David and Joan Oates.
TI  - The rise of civilization
T2  - 	Making of the past (Oxford, England)
SN  - 072900015X
U1  - 939 D2801 R 
PY  - 1976///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Elsevier Phaidon
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 	
Joan Oates - along with her late husband, David - first revived excavations at Tell Brak in northern Syria in the 1970s. Those excavations showed signs that civilizations existed in Syria 6,000 years ago, challenging long-held beliefs and changing the current theoretical framework about Earth's first societies
ER  -