Book
The Halaf period in northern Mesopotamia
Nabu Publications • London • Published In 1997 • Pages: 159 , 94, [114] of plates
By: Hijjara, Ismail H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Hijjara writes about his excavations at Arpachiyah, the first reinvestigation since Mallowan excavated there in 1933, and his findings from his survey of sites in northern Iraq. The survey allows him to discuss settlement patterns for Halafian sites and how Arpachiyah is different from other contemporary Halafian villages. Arpachiyah has the longest sequences of any Halfian site, has unique ritual artifacts, and has a range of stratified ceramics for the Halaf period. Hijjara discusses the ceramics in detail with numerous plates of the ceramics provided.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Ceramic technology
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Halafian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976, 1977
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Halaf period; 6930±60 BP- 6110±116 BP (5985 BC-5240 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arpachiyah, Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ismail Hijjara
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-159) and index
- Revision of the author's 1980 London Institute of Archaeology dissertation
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Halaf culture--Iraq
- Neolithic period--Iraq
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Iraq
- Iraq--Antiquities