Evolution as a way of intertwining: regional approach and new data on the Halaf-Ubaidtransition in Northern Mesopotamia
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Abstract
The Ubaid represents a fundamental phase for the emergence of social complexity and is the first cultural phaenomenon \nhaving spread throughout almost the entire Fertile Crescent. A long-lasting debate exists about the \nmodalities of this expansion, while its chronology – around the last quarter of the sixth millennium BC – is \ngenerally considered as well established. However, recent reassessments of some ancient radiocarbon dates and \nceramic data from the whole Ubaid sphere clearly suggest that the chronology of the emergence of the Ubaid \nis as controversial as the modalities of this process. On the basis of new data from northern Mesopotamia and \nthe northern Levant, this paper focuses on the Halaf-Ubaid Transition, as well as on the contact between the \nUbaid and other cultural entities in Levantine areas generally considered as external to the Ubaid sphere. Technical \nand morpho-stylistic analysis of some sixth millennium assemblages seems to suggest that the Ubaid expansion \ncould have begun much earlier than generally imagined and could have implied very frequent and deep \ncultural relations with other Mesopotamian and Levantine cultures.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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