The Sumerians
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y name is Sibel, and I am a student at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. The information below is the pathfinder that I prepared for the English 102 class, spring 2005. You will find some web sites, books and other sources about the Sumerians.
Library Source
Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1963.
I found this book at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point library, 3rd floor. I used library web site http://library.uwsp.edu/. I clicked on 'Library Catalog'. A search page come up and I looked for Sumerians. I found Samuel Noah Kramer on this web page. By clicking on his name and found the the Call # DS72.K73 and location stacks (A-G 3rd floor, H-PS 4th, PT-Z 5th) Basically I picked it up on the 3rd floor of the university library.
There is very useful information in Kramer’s book “The Sumerians” such as education system, literature, religion, social structure, science and physiology in Sumer.
Database (Ebsco)
At the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point library web page http://library.uwsp.edu/ I clicked on “Journals, magazines, and Newspaper indexes & reference databases”. That brought several options listed on the left side of the web page. By clicking on 'Newspapers and Current Events' I got more options listed. I chose 'Newspaper Archives (EBSCO)'. That opened a new page on the left side 'Click here to connect to NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES' It took me to 'newspaper archive elite' I clicked on it and I got the search page of NewspaperARCHIVE.com. I searched 'Sumerians' For the publication date I chose between 2000-2005 and for the publication location I chose 'all'. There were several options and finally I found Star Herald – 03/20/2003 pp52.
Feiler, Bruce. “What These Ancient Places Can Teach Us Now.” Star Herald 25 April, 2004, pp52.
His article tells about the Sumerians and the other nations who lived in the same land after Sumerians such as Babylonians, Assyrians, and today’s Iraq.
Web Source
I found these web sites on www.google.com. I typed in “Sumerians” and found many other web sources but these are the are my favorites.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/AncientCivilizations/Middle_East_Civilizations/Sumerians/sumerians.html
This is one of my favorite web site about Sumerians. Gives information about economy, government, religion, social structure, role of women, and writings in Sumer. There are some pictures of the cuneiform tablets, map of Sumer, and their temple Ziggurat.
http://theoldpath.com/sumer.htm
This is another web site that I love. If you are looking for information about Sumerian mythology and stories found on tablets, this web site will help you a lot. You can find Gilgamesh, Descent of Ishtar, Nibiru, Ki-Amum and many more.
www.crystalinks.com/ sumerhut.gif
You will find information about economy and jobs in Sumer.
Other Sources
Book
Kramer, Samuel Noah. History Begins at Sumer: Thirty- Nine “Firsts” in Recorded History. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.
I read the book before but I do not have it. So I went to www.amazon.com for citation. You can check the book at www.amazon.com too :)
You will be amazed by the information Kramer gives in this book. As you read you will find many similarities in today’s cultures and religions. You can also compare the lifestyle in Sumer with Iraq where Sumerians occupied 5,000 years ago. As the title says there are ‘Thirty – Nine “Firsts” ‘ that Sumerians did or believed in.
Some of them are;
* Education: The First Schools
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Father and Son: The First Case of Juvenile Delinquency* Civil War: The First Historian
* Law Codes: The First “Moses”
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Agriculture: The First “Farmer’s Almanac”*
Medicine: The First Pharmacopoeia* Government: The First Bicameral Congress
* Philosophy: Man’s First Cosmogony* and Cosmology
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Paradise: The First Biblical Parallels* Logomachy: The First Literary Debates
So that is all from me and I hope the information above will help you.