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Nippur: the definition of a Mesopotamian Gamdat Nasr assemblage
gamdat nasr : period or regional style? : papers given at a symposium held in tübingen, november 1983 • Wiesbaden • Published In 1986 • Pages: 57-89
By: Wilson, Karen L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wilson describes how the ceramics change from the Late Uruk to the Early Dyanastic I levels at the Inanna Temple at Nippur. She uses this as an indication that there is a Jemdet Nasr period between the Late Uruk and the Early Dynastic I periods in southern and central Mesopotamia.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Utensils
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jemdet Nasr
- 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; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1958, 1960-1961, 1962-1963
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Jemdet Nasr period; ca. 5100 BP - 4900 BP (ca. 3100 B.C.-2900 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Inanna Temple area at Nippur, Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Karen L. Wilson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87100454
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jamdat Nasr Site (Iraq)