essay
Les 'jetons' non urukiens et l'echange des femmes
upon this foundation : the 'ubaid reconsidered : proceedings from the 'ubaid symposium, elsinore, may 30th-june 1st 1988 • Copenhagen • Published In 1989 • Pages: 199-226
By: Forest, Jean-Daniel, Ubaid Symposium (1988 : Helsingør, Denmark).
Abstract
In this article, Forest examines 90 tokens (jettons)of earthernware spheres, cones, discs, sticks and plates, all with incisions, found in the graves of a small village at tell Abada. He suggests that they mark dowry exchanges, most likely animals.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2007
- Field Date
- 1978-1980
- Coverage Date
- 7000-6500 BP (5000 -4500BC)
- Coverage Place
- tell Abada and tepe Gawra, Iraq
- Notes
- By Jean Daniel Forest
- Discussion of Jean-Daniel Forest's paper / Chairman M. Trolle Larsen
- For bibliographical references see document 14: Henrickson and Thuesen
- LCSH
- Ubaid culture