essay

Third-millennium BC stone objects

Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 263-268

By: Oates, Joan.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

Oates describes various stone objects from the fifth millenium BP (third millennium BC), with the majority of those described from the Akkadian period. The objects include figurines; stone vessels; possible stone weights; semi-precious stones that probably came from eastern Iran or Afghanistan; ornaments; a possible stone gaming board; many querns, mortars, and grinding stones; celts; maceheads; pigments; part of a potters' wheel; and a brief description of the chipped stone tools that will be more fully described in Volume 3. Numerous figures that illustrate the various objects described can be found in eHRAF document number 43.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Lithic industries

General tools

Visual arts

Ornament

Utensils

traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Akkadian

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2009

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

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Sarah Berry; 2008

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1976-1993 (14 field seasons)

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

4250 BP-4100 BP (2250 BC-2100 BC)

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

Tell Brak, Syria

NotesAdditional notes

Joan Oates

For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

00303945

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities