Ancient History:

General Index

 

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Summaries : Based on « The Cambridge Ancient History”

Volume 1, part 1: Prolegomena and prehistory

 

CH. 1.1: The Early Settlements of Western Asian (9th-5th millennia B.C.)

 

·          The Zagros (Zawi Chemi, Jarmo, Ali-Kosh)

·          Syria & Lebanon (Ras Shamra, Jericho, Tell Ramad)

·          The Mesopotamian Plain (Samarra, Halaf)

·          Susiana and Southern Mesopotamia (Susian, Tepe Sabz, Sumerians’ origins)

·          The Iranian Plateau (Hajji Firuz, Dalme)

·          Southern Turkestan (Jeitun, Ashkhabad, Anau)

 

CH. 1.2: Anatolia before 4000 B.C.

 

·          Neolithic Anatolia (Antalya, Catal Hüjük, Suberde, Hacilar)

·          Early Chalcolithic (idem)

·          Late Chalcolithic (Mersin, Beycesultan)

 

CH. 2.: Development of cities: Babylonia and Mesopotamia

 

·          Eridu

·          Ur (Ur, Al-‘Ubaid)

·          Uruk

·          Other sites (Ras El-Amiya, Tell ‘Uqair, Jamdat Nasr)

 

CH. 2.1: Development of cities: Assyria and Syria

 

·          Tepe Gawra

·          Other sites (Arpachiyah, Nineveh, Jebel Sinjar)

·          Syria (Brak, Balikh valley, Orontes valley, Amuq plain, Ras Shamra, Byblos)

 

CH. 2.2: Development of cities: Iran

 

·          Khuzistan (Tepe Sabz, Ali-Kosh, Mussian, Susiana, Susa)

·          Other sites (Tepe Guran, Tepe Giyan, Bakun, Sialk, Hisar)

 

CH. 3: Predynastic Egypt

 

·          The Badarian (El-Hammamiya, El-Badari, El-Matmar, “Tasian” culture)

·          Naqada I (Naqada, Armant)

·          Naqada II (El-Badari)

 

CH. 3.1: Palestine and Cyprus

 

·          Eridu

·          Ur (Ur, Al-‘Ubaid)

·          Uruk

·          Other sites (Ras El-Amiya, Tell ‘Uqair, Jamdat Nasr)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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