eHRAF Archaeology

Explore search results through word clouds.

Compare traditions overlayed on a map.

Drill down through the search results by region and tradition.

Sort Results By

Display Use Fors

The Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia tradition dates from circa 6000 BP to 5100 BP (beginning at 4000 BC with the Terminal Ubaid through the Uruk and Late Susiana periods, and ending 3100 BC or with the start of the Early Bronze Age). It is found throughout the river basins of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their tributaries, in  modern Iraq, western Iran, Syria, and southeastern Turkey. The Late Chalcolithic is characterized by the development of higher level administrative systems (states) that controlled decision making, economic specialization, centralization of some key activities related to religious ritual, military action, policing, and the production and distribution of goods. The economy was based on grain agriculture and pastoralism with the beginnings of mass production of goods.

Configurations of settlement

Catalog of surveyed sites

The prehistory of imperialism

The Uruk world system

Index of loci and finds

A view of the plains from the mountains

Chogha Mish

A Carbon 14 determination pertaining to some plant identifications from Chogha Mish

The Uruk settlement on Jebel Aruda

Jebel Aruda

Centralization processes in greater Mesopotamia

Local exchange and early state development in southwestern Iran

Mesopotamian architecture and town planning

Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar

Test results of five bitumen samples from Chogha Mish

Cultural and political networks in the ancient Near East during the fourth and third millennia B.C.

Analysis of archaeological surface collections

An open gate

Trade and power in the fifth and fourth millennia B.C.

Artificial cranial deformation of a human skull from Chogha Mish

Mesopotamian intraregional relations reflected through glyphic evidence in the Late Chalcolithic 1-5 periods

The Uruk period in southern Mesopotamia

The local and the regional

The Tigris piedmont, eastern Jazira, and the highland western Iran in the fourth millennium B.C.

Tradition summary

References

Syria and the Uruk expansion

Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact

Author	Title	Publication Date
Adams, Robert McCormick	Configurations of settlement	1972
Adams, Robert McCormick	Catalog of surveyed sites	1972
Algaze, Guillermo	The prehistory of imperialism	2001
Algaze, Guillermo	The Uruk world system	1993
Alizadeh, Abbas	Index of loci and finds	1996
D'Altroy, Terence N.	A view of the plains from the mountains	2001
Delougaz, Pinhas	Chogha Mish	1996
Delougaz, Pinhas	A Carbon 14 determination pertaining to some plant identifications from Chogha Mish	1996
Driel, G. van	The Uruk settlement on Jebel Aruda	1980
Driel, G. van	Jebel Aruda	1979
Frangipane, M. (Marcella)	Centralization processes in greater Mesopotamia	2001
Johnson, Gregory Alan	Local exchange and early state development in southwestern Iran	1973
Kubba, Sam.	Mesopotamian architecture and town planning	1987
Mallowan, M. E. L. (Max Edgar Lucien)	Excavations at Brak and Chagar Bazar	1947
Marschner, Robert F.	Test results of five bitumen samples from Chogha Mish	1996
Nissen, Hans Jörg	Cultural and political networks in the ancient Near East during the fourth and third millennia B.C.	2001
Nissen, Hans Jörg	Analysis of archaeological surface collections	1972
Oates, David	An open gate	1997
Oates, Joan	Trade and power in the fifth and fourth millennia B.C.	1993
Ortner, Donald J.	Artificial cranial deformation of a human skull from Chogha Mish	1996
Pittman, Holly	Mesopotamian intraregional relations reflected through glyphic evidence in the Late Chalcolithic 1-5 periods	2001
Pollock, Susan	The Uruk period in southern Mesopotamia	2001
Rothman, Mitchell S.	The local and the regional	2001
Rothman, Mitchell S.	The Tigris piedmont, eastern Jazira, and the highland western Iran in the fourth millennium B.C.	2001
Rothman, Mitchell S.	Tradition summary	2009
Rothman, Mitchell S.	References	2001
Schwartz, Glenn M.	Syria and the Uruk expansion	2001
Stein, Gil	Indigenous social complexity at Hacinebi (Turkey) and the organization of Uruk colonial contact	2001
Woosley, Anne I.	Early agriculture at Chogha Mish	1996
Wright, Henry T. (Henry Tutwiler)	Calibrated radiocarbon age determinations of Uruk-related assemblages	2001
Wright, Henry T. (Henry Tutwiler)	Cultural action in the Uruk world	2001

Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia

Your privacy