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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.
/$/Ubaid Symposium (1988 : Helsingør, Denmark)
Title:
Tradition and social change in northern Mesopotamia during the later fifth and fourth millennium BC
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Upon this foundation : the 'Ubaid reconsidered : proceedings from the 'Ubaid symposium, Elsinore, May 30th-June 1st 1988 / edited by Elizabeth F. Henrickson and Ingolf Thuesen
Published By: Original publisher
Upon this foundation : the 'Ubaid reconsidered : proceedings from the 'Ubaid symposium, Elsinore, May 30th-June 1st 1988 / edited by Elizabeth F. Henrickson and Ingolf Thuesen
Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Studies : University of Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press. 1989. 339-367 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
By Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2019. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Ubaid (MH55)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Settlement patterns (361);
Burial practices and funerals (764);
Religious and educational structures (346);
Cultural stratigraphy (912);
Sociocultural trends (178);
Cultural participation (184);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
29
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
mh55-029
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Essay
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
For bibliographical references see document 14: Henrickson and Thuesen
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Archaeologist-4, 5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
John Beierle ; 2006
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
7000-5000 BP (5000-3000 BC)
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Iraq
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Ubaid culture
