Paléorient 25-1

L’expansion de la culture urukéenne de la Mésopotamie du Sud vers la Mésopotamie du Nord retient l’attention des chercheurs depuis une quinzaine d’années ; ses raisons et sa nature suscitent des controverses, parfois vives.The expansion of the Uruk culture from southern Mesopotamia into the north has attracted the attention of researchers for the past fifteen years; the causes and nature of this phenomenon have raised a number of controversies, occasionally quite lively. It has also been of interest for the editorship of Paléorient, in its desire to be an open format for debates, to respond positively to the idea of publishing an exchange of views on this question.