%0 Book Section
%T Tradition and social change in northern Mesopotamia during the later fifth and fourth millennium BC
%A Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.
%A Ubaid Symposium (1988 : Helsingør, Denmark)
%B upon this foundation : the 'ubaid reconsidered : proceedings from the 'ubaid symposium, elsinore, may 30th-june 1st 1988
%S CNI publications
%D 1989
%I Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies : University of Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press
%C Copenhagen
%@ 0902-5499
%@ 8772890703
%G English
%F mh55-029
%O By Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
%O Discussion of Peter M. M. G. Akkermans' paper / Chairman H. J. Nissen
%O For bibliographical references see document 14: Henrickson and Thuesen
%X In the following document Akkermans describescertain aspects of ritual behaviour in fifth and fourth millennium Mesopotamia ('Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic periods)and attempts to relate it to ideological changes in the society. Emphasis in the document is on northern Mesopotamia (Iraq)mainly taking Tepe Gawra and Tell Arpachiyah into consideration. Two specific aspects  of 'Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic society given special attention in this work are settlement structure and architecture, and funerary practices.
%K Ubaid culture
%K Ubaid
%K Settlement patterns
%K Burial practices and funerals
%K Religious and educational structures
%K Cultural stratigraphy
%K Sociocultural trends
%K Cultural participation
%U https://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/document?id=mh55-029
%P 339-367
%[ 2022-08-08