Paléorient 48.1

Delineating the End of a World: Reassessing the Ubaid/post-Ubaid Transition in Greater Mesopotamia

 

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Thematic Issue

Johnny Samuele Baldi et Khaled Abu Jayyab
Introduction

Khaled Abu Jayyab et Elizabeth Gibbon
Stability and Change in Potting Communities across Mesopotamia from the Early Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic 1: New Insights from Multivariate Statistics and Social Network Analysis

Johnny Samuele Baldi
Between an End and a New Beginning: Tracking the post-Ubaid ceramic transition as an indicator of social change

M. T. Fisher
Intrasite Variability and Changing Social Practices during the Ubaid-Late Chalcolithic Transition at Tell Zeidan, Syria

Jason R. Kennedy
The End of the Ubaid Period in the Upper Tigris River Valley

Catherine Marro
The View from the North: The Emergence and Spread of the Chaff-Faced Ware oikumenè as seen from the Caucasus (ca. 4600-3500 BCE)

Steve Renette
Defining Dalma: an Incipient Mountain Identity?

Giulia Russo
Pottery-Making Practices between the Ubaid and the Late Chalcolithic 1 and 2: Some Observations on Ceramics from the Balikh Valley, Syria

Luca Volpi
Revisiting the South: a Typochronological Approach to the Analysis of the Ubaid Pottery based on the New Data from Tell Zurghul (Dhi Qar, Iraq)

 

Recensions

Ferran Borrell
Makoto Arimura. The Neolithic Lithic Industry at Tell Ain El-Kerkh

Melania Zingarello
Steve Renette. Lagash I: The Ceramic Corpus from Al-Hiba, 1968-1990. A Chrono-Typology of the Pottery Tradition in Southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd and Early 2nd Millennium BCE