Table of Contents:
  • Concluding remarks / Robert McC. Adams and Henry T. Wright
  • Tradition and social change in northern Mesopotamia during the later fifth and fourth millennium BC / Peter M.M.G. Akkermans
  • The ceramic evidence for sociopolitical organization in 'Ubaid southwestern Iran / Judith Berman
  • Ceramic production and its implications for the sociopolitical organization of the Susiana Plain during the late 'Ubaid / Judith C. Berman
  • Les origines de la culture d'Obeid en Mésopotamie du nord / Catherine Breniquet
  • The Eridu crania, a preliminary report / Carleton S. Coon
  • The human skeletal remains / Deborah Downs
  • Les 'jetons' non urukiens et l'echange des femmes / Jean Daniel Forest
  • 'Ubaid in the gulf area / Karen Frifelt
  • Botanical samples / J.B. Gillet
  • Ceramic evidence for cultural interaction between the 'Ubaid tradition and the central Zagros highlands, western Iran / Elizabeth F. Henrickson
  • Bibliography ; Introduction, the importance of the 'Ubaid, transition between revolutions / Elizabeth F. Henrickson and Ingolf Thuesen
  • Concluding summary / E.F. Henrickson and I. Thuesen
  • Patterns of burial in the fifth millennium / Frank Hole
  • Ubaidian villages of lower Mesopotamia, permanence and evolution from the 'Ubaid O to 'Ubaid 4 as seen from Tell el'Oueili / Jean-Louis Huot
  • The Ubaid period in Iraq, recent excavations in the Hamrin region / Sabah Abboud Jasim
  • Structure and function in an 'Ubaid village / S.A. Jasim
  • Architecture et société à l'époque d'Obeid / Jean-Cl. Margueron
  • The flaked stone industries / Robert Miller and Janie Rees Miller
  • The pottery from Tell Madhhur / Jane Moon and Michael Roaf
  • The 'Ubaid period in the context of the early history of the ancient Near East / Hans J. Nissen
  • Ubaid Mesopotamia reconsidered / Joan Oates
  • Pre-state societies and cultural styles in ancient Peru and Mesopotamia, a comparison / Thomas C. Patterson
  • Tradition summary, Ubaid culture / Brian Peasnall and John Beierle
  • Stratigraphy and architecture ; Social organization and social activities at Tell Madhur / Michael Roaf
  • Eridu / Fuad Safar, Mohammad Ali Mustafa, Seton Lloyd
  • Economy, ritual, and power in 'Ubaid Mesopotamia / Gil Stein
  • Diffusion of 'Ubaid pottery into western Syria / Ingolf Thuesen
  • Were there supralocal cemeteries in southern Mesopotamia in Late Chalcolithic times? ; Transitions and transformations of Early Chalcolithic painted pottery in Mesopotamia / Peter Paul Vértesalji
  • The small finds from Tell Madhhur / Philip J. Watson
  • Geological notes on rocks, fossils and objects of antiquarian interest excavated from the ruins of Eridu / W. Rees Williams.