Detailed Chronology for the Neolithic to Early Bronze Age of the Near East
| Period |
Approximate
Dates in years BP |
Culture |
|
| Early
Neolithic (aka Pre-Pottery Neolithic) |
PPNA |
ca. 10
200-9200 BP |
Khiamian Sultanian |
| Early
PPNB |
ca.
9500-9200 BP |
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| Middle
PPNB |
ca.
9200-8500 BP |
Tahunian |
|
| Late PPNB |
ca.
8500-8000 BP (ends a little earlier in north as Proto-Hassunan starts ca. 8200 BP) |
Proto-Neolithic
(uncommon term for Proto-Hassunan in Zagros) |
|
| PPNC
(sometimes called Final PPNB) |
ca.
8000-7600 BP (only in southern Levant) |
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| Late
Neolithic (aka Pottery Neolithic) |
Late
Neolithic (Levant) |
ca.
8000-6000 BP |
Byblos neolithique ancien (ca. 7600-7100 BP) neolithique moyen (ca. 7100-6800 BP) neolithique recent (ca. 6800-6200 BP) Yarmoukian (ca. 7500-7000 BP) Jericho IX (aka Lodian) (ca. 7400- 6800? BP) Wadi Rabah (ca. 6800-6200 BP) Other Variants |
| Pottery
Neolithic (Anatolia) |
ca. 8500
(?)-6000 BP |
(Catal
Hoyuk, Hacilar, Can Hassan) |
|
| Pottery
Neolithic (Zagros) |
ca. 8500
(?)-6000 BP |
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| Proto-Hassuna
or Sotto (Mesopotamia) |
ca.
8200-7900 BP (note its earlier than in southern Levant) |
Proto-Hassunan
or Sottoan |
|
| Hassunan (Mesopotamia) |
ca. 7900-7200 BP | Hassunan |
|
| Samarra (Mesopotamia) |
ca. 7500-6500 BP | Samarran |
|
| Halaf (northern
Mesopotamia) |
ca. 7200-6300 BP or 6000-5300 cal BC | Halafian |
|
| Chalcolithic Late Chalcolithic |
Early Chalcolithic (Levant) Middle Chalcolithic (Levant) Late Chalcolithic or Ghassulian (Levant) |
ca. 6800-6200 BP ca. 6200-5600 BP ca. 5600-4600 BP |
known to most archaeologists as the end of the Late Neolithic (Wadi Rabah) Ghassulian - usually "The Chalcolithic" |
| Chalcolithic
(Anatolia) |
ca. 6200-4600 BP | (sites Hacilar, Can Hassan) | |
| Halaf
(northern Mesopotamia, aka Late Neolithic) Ubaid (southern Mesopotamia and spreading north) |
ca. 6000-5300
cal BC, persists a little longer further north ca. 5800-4600 cal BC (5000?-3800 BCE uncalibrated in literature) |
Halafian Ubaid |
|
| Uruk
(Mesopotamia) |
ca.
4600-3900 cal BC (3800-3100 BCE uncalibrated in literature) |
Uruk |
|
| Jemdet
Nasr (Mesopotamia) |
ca.
3900-3600 cal BC (3100-2900 BCE uncalibrated in literature) |
Jemdet
Nasr |
|
| Early Bronze Age |
Early
Bronze Age (Levant) |
ca.
3600-2300 cal BC |
EB I
(early) ca. 3600-3300 cal BC EB I (late) ca. 3300-3050 cal BC EB II ca. 3050-2800/2700 cal BC EB III ca. 2800/2700-2400-2300 cal BC |
| Early
Dynastic (Mesopotamia) |
ca.
3600-3000 cal BC (2900-2400 BCE uncalibrated in literature) |
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Schematic Chronology of the Levantine Neolithic and Chalcolithic
Taken from Banning, E.B. 1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of architecture, agriculture, and art. Near Eastern Archaeology 61: 188-237.
Schematic Chronology of Mesopotamia for the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods
