Jemdet Nasr : MH62.

This collection consists of 16 documents, all in English. The documents discuss the Jemdet Nasr tradition primarily in Iraq but also in the Arabian Gulf, Iran, Syria, and Turkey from ca. 5100 B.P.- 900 B.P. (3100 B.C.-2900 B.C.). An overview of the Jemdet Nasr tradition can be found in Nissen, and a...

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Corporate Author: Human Relations Area Files, inc
Other Authors: Berry, Sarah H. (Archaeologist), 1960-, Algaze, Guillermo, 1954-, Dittmann, Reinhard, Finkbeiner, Uwe, Killick, R. G., Matthews, Roger, Dr, Killick, Jane, 1954-, Nissen, Hans Jörg, Oates, Joan, Peregrine, Peter N. 1963-, Postgate, J. N., Potts, Daniel T., Wilson, Karen L., Young, T. Cuyler
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2009-
Series:EHRAF archaeology. Middle East.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Kurban Hröyük and the Late Chalcolithic Period in the northwest Mesopotamian periphery, a preliminary assessment / Guillermo Algaze
  • Susa in the Proto-Elamite Period and annotations on the painted pottery of Proto-Elamite Khuzestan / R. Dittmann
  • Uruk-Warka, evidence of the Gamdat Nasr-period / Uwe Finkbeiner
  • The Eski Mosul region / Robert Killick
  • Defining the style of the period, Jemedt Nasr, 1926-28 / R.J. Matthews
  • Secrets of the dark mound, Jemdet Nasr, 1926-1928 / Roger Matthews
  • The Gamdat Nasr sounding at Abu Salabikh ; The Lower Diyala and the Hamrin Basin, ceramic relations during the early third millennium / Jane Moon
  • The development of writing and of glyptic art / Hans J. Nissen
  • Final discussion / H.J. Nissen
  • Tell Brak, the Uruk/Early Dynasty sequence / Joan Oates
  • Tradition summary, Jemdet Nasr / Peter N. Peregrine and Sarah Berry
  • The transition from Uruk to Early Dynastic, continuities and discontinuities in the record of settlement / J.N. Postgate
  • A Contribution to the history of the term 'Gamdat Nasr' ; Eastern Arabia and the Oman Peninsula during the late fourth and early third millennium B.C. / Daniel T. Potts
  • Nippur, the definition of a Mesopotamian Gamdat Nasr assemblage / Karen L. Wilson
  • Godin Tepe Period and central western Iran at the end of the fourth millennium / T. Cuyler Young, Jr.