Tell Ingharra-East Kish in the 3rd Millennium BC: Urban Development, Architecture and Functional Analysis

Extensive archaeological excavations at Kish have exposed a complex archaeological stratification which spans the entire 3rd millennium BC. This paper aims at critically reviewing the results achieved by the Anglo-American expedition and to provide a new interpretation of the urban and architectural development of Tell Ingharra/East Kish during the Early Dynastic period. New synchronized stratigraphical sequences of selected areas, together with renewed plans and sections, have been produced on the basis of the unpublished documentation and materials kept in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford and in the Field Museum of Chicago.