부산대학교 도서관

The article discusses results of a study of the evolution of urbanism at the site of Tell Brak, in northeastern Syria. It has been found that Brak's urban origin is contemporary with the appearance of cities in southern Iraq. During late Chalcolithic (LC) 2 period, 4200 to 3900 calendar years before the common era (BCE), urban growth at Brak began. That period witnessed rapid formation of spatially extensive settlement distinguished by clusters of occupied space interspersed with vacant zones in the outer town. During the early to mid-fourth millennium BCE, many unsettled areas got filled and outer town settlement expanded inward. This urban growth showed changes in underlying social and political structures.