Back to the Future. Structuring an Analytical Model for the Mesopotamian Urbanism: a view from the South

This paper is just a further attempt to propose the application of the Artificial Adaptive Systems to the analysis of the southern Mesopotamian urbanism. The ‘Urban Revolution’ in the Land of Sumer and Akkad has been considered as a complex natural and cultural phenomenon, but also as the product of cognitive behavior that can be critically discussed on both the historiographical and analytical levels (Liverani 2013). The complementary exploration of these two research’s levels leads to a strong diversification of the first Mesopotamian archaeological and anthropological landscape and it represents a progressive human attempt to analyze the high complexity of the multifactorial relationships between Habitat and Biome through the computational modeling