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Tradition summary: Aceramic Neolithic
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2010 • Pages:
By: Banning, E. B. (Edward Bruce).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Aceramic Neolithic Tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the Aceramic Neolithic archaeological tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aceramic Neolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10,500-7500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mediterranean desert zones of the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian Autonomous Areas, Jordon, Lebanon, Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northern Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edward Banning
- This tradition summary is from the article, “Aceramic Neolithic,” by Edward Banning, in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Vol. 8, South and Southwest Asia, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum 2002. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period