美索不达米亚早期王朝时期

早期王朝时期（缩写ED时期或ED）是美索不达米亚（现代 伊拉克）中的古文明，可追溯到公元前 2900–2350 年。

早期王朝时期
c.2900–2350 BC

地理范围	美索不达米亚
时期	青铜时代
时间	fl. c. 2900–2350 BC (middle)
典型代表	Tell Khafajah, Tell Agrab, Tell Asmar
主要遗址	Tell Abu Shahrain, Tell al-Madain, Tell as-Senkereh, Tell Abu Habbah, Tell Fara, Tell Uheimir, Tell al-Muqayyar, Tell Bismaya, Tell Hariri
先前文化	Jemdet Nasr Period
继承文化	Akkadian Period

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苏美尔的历史

主条目：美索不达米亚历史

地理环境

政府与经济

法律

Gay

文化

进一步阅读

• Ascalone, Enrico. 2007. Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians (Dictionaries of Civilizations; 1). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-25266-7 (paperback).
• Bottéro, Jean, André Finet, Bertrand Lafont, and George Roux. 2001. Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Crawford, Harriet E. W. 2004. Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Frayne, Douglas. 2008. Pre-Sargonic Period: Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC), University of Toronto Press.
• Leick, Gwendolyn. 2002. Mesopotamia: Invention of the City. London and New York: Penguin.
• Lloyd, Seton. 1978. The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: From the Old Stone Age to the Persian Conquest. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Nemet-Nejat, Karen Rhea. 1998. Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. London and Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character. University of Chicago Press. 1963. ISBN 0-226-45238-7.  含有内容需登入查看的页面 (link)
• Kramer, Samuel Noah. Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium BC.
• Roux, Georges. 1992. Ancient Iraq, 560 pages. London: Penguin (earlier printings may have different pagination: 1966, 480 pages, Pelican; 1964, 431 pages, London: Allen and Urwin).
• Schomp, Virginia. Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerians, Babylonians, And Assyrians.
• Sumer: Cities of Eden (Timelife Lost Civilizations). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993 (hardcover, ISBN 0-8094-9887-1).
• Wencel, Maciej Mateusz. Radiocarbon Dating of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia: Results, Limitations, and Prospects. Radiocarbon. 2017, 59 (2): 635–645 [2022-09-21]. ISSN 0033-8222. doi:10.1017/RDC.2016.60. （原始内容存档于2021-10-29） （英语）. 
• Woolley, C. Leonard. 1929. The Sumerians. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

外部链接

• Iraq’s Ancient Past （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） — Penn Museum

Language

• Sumerian Language Page （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, perhaps the oldest Sumerian website on the web (it dates back to 1996), features compiled lexicon, detailed FAQ, extensive links, and so on.
• ETCSL: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） has complete translations of more than 400 Sumerian literary texts.
• PSD: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, while still in its initial stages, can be searched on-line, from August 2004.
• CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） a large corpus of Sumerian texts in transliteration, largely from the Early Dynastic and Ur III periods, accessible with images.