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Ubaid period
A clickable map of Iraq detailing important sites that were occupied during the Ubaid period | |
| Geographical range | Near East |
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| Period | Neolithic |
| Dates | c. 5500 – c. 3700 BC |
| Type site | Tell al-'Ubaid |
| Major sites | |
| Preceded by | |
| Followed by | |
| History of Iraq |
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 Iraq portal |
| The Neolithic |
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| ↑ Mesolithic |
| ↓ Chalcolithic |
The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC)[1] is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. The name derives from Tell al-'Ubaid where the earliest large excavation of Ubaid period material was conducted initially in 1919 by Henry Hall, Leonard Woolley in 1922-1923, and later by Pinhas Delougaz in 1937.[2][3][4] Excavations continue into the present day.
In South Mesopotamia the period is the earliest known period on the alluvial plain although it is likely earlier periods exist that are obscured under the alluvium.[5] In the south it has a very long duration between about 5500 and 3800 BC when it is replaced by the Uruk period.[1]
In Northern Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC.[1] It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period and succeeded by the Late Chalcolithic period.
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Hall, Harry Reginald; Woolley, Sir C. Leonard (1927). Al-'Ubaid: A Report on the Work Carried Out at Al-'Ubaid for the British Museum in 1919 and for the Joint Expedition in 1922-3. Oxford University Press.
- ^ [1]H. R. Hall, "Season's Work at Ur; Al-'Ubaid, Abu Shahrain (Eridu), and Elsewhere; Being an Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylonia, 1919", Methuen, 1930
- ^ P. Delougaz, "A Short Investigation of the Temple at Al-’Ubaid", Iraq, vol. 5, pp. 1–11, 1938
- ^ Adams Jr., Robert McCormick; Wright, H.T. (1989). "Concluding remarks". In Henrickson, Elizabeth F.; Thuesen, Ingolf (eds.). Upon this foundation: the ʿUbaid reconsidered; proceedings from the ʿUbaid Symposium, Elsinore, May 30th - June 1st 1988. CNI-publikations. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. pp. 441–456. ISBN 978-87-7289-070-8.
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