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The Halafian culture: a review and synthesis
Hilly flanks and beyond : essays on the prehistory of southwestern Asia presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November l5, l982 • (36) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 231-250
By: Watson, Patty Jo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Patty Jo Watson has written a brief overview of the Halaf culture. She states she wanted to 'summarize the curent state of archeological knowledge and anthropologically based speculation about the Halafian.' (page 231).She decribes the distribution of the sites known in 1982, what type of archaeological work had been done at which sites (survey or excavation), subsistence, and settlement patterns. As usual, ceramics for the various areas are described.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Identification
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Ceramic technology
- 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
- 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; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Halaf period; 7300 BP-6500 BP (5300 BC-4500 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patty Jo Watson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82062879
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Halaf culture