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Chalcolithic Chronology 9000 Jericho (P) 4000 Hassek Hoyuk (Asia Minor) Palaeolithic (2500 kya) 9000 Zawi Chemi Shanidar (M) 4000 Jerusalem 2500-1400 kya Oldowan industry 9000-5900 Karim-Shehir & Mlefaat (M) 4000 Sidon (Phoenicia) 1900-200 kya Homo erectus 8400 Nevali Cori (Asia Minor) 4000 Ur (M) 1810-12 kya Pleistocene 8200-7400 Asikli Hoyuk (Asia Minor) 4000 Uruk (M) 8000 Choga Sefid (Iran) 4000-3500 Naqada I culture (E) 1600-100 kya Acheulian industry 8000 Tepe Sialk (Iran) 1500 kya Ubeidiyeh (P) 4000-2200 Kura-Araxes culture (AM) 1000 kya Kaletepe Deresi 3 (Asia Minor) 7500 Arkinian Industry (E) 3750-3150 Uruk period (M) 7500 Cafer Hoyuk (Asia Minor) 750 kya Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (P) 3500 A-Group (Nubia) 7500 Catal Hoyuk (south of Konya, AM) 700 kya Abu Simbel (E) 3500 Ein Gedi (P) 7500-6500 Tepe Ali Kosh (M) 500 kya Tabun Cave (Israel) 3500 Habuba Kabira (Syria) 7500-6500 Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) 3500 Jebel Aruda (Syria 400 kya Clactonian culture 7200-6600 Cayonu Tepesi (Asia Minor) 400 kya Karain Cave (Asia Minor) 3500 Nahal Mishmar (P) 7200-6500 Masara culture (E) 3500 Sos Hoyuk (Asia Minor) 350 kya Acheulo-Yabrudian culture 7000 Hacilar (Asia Minor) 3500-3200 Naqada II culture (E) 350 kya Zuttiyeh Cave (P) 7000 Susa (Iran) 3500-3200 Habuba Kabira (Syria) 330 kya Yarimburgaz Cave 6800 Nabta Playa & Bir Kiseiba (E) 300 kya Levallois technique 3500-1600 Ebla (Syria) 6700 Shamarkian industry (E) 300 kya Kharga & Dakhleh oases (E) 6700 Gritille (Asia Minor) Bronze Age (3200 BC) 300-27 kya Homo neanderthalensis 6500 Can Hasan III (Asia Minor) 3200 Abydos and Thebes (E) 250 kya Mousterian industry 6500 Jarmo (M) 250 kya Nubian knapping technique 6500 Suberde (Asia Minor) 3200-3050 Naqada III culture (E) 200 kya Bir Sahara (E) 6500 Ugarit (Syria) 3200-539 Elamite Period (Persia) 200 kya Homo sapiens 3150-2900 Jemdet Nasr period (M) 175 kya Bir Safsaf (E) Ceramic Neolithic (6400 BC) 3100 Memphis (E) 175 kya Bir Tarfawi (E) 6400-6000 Elkabian industry (E) 3100 Narmer/Menes unifies Egypt 150 kya Nazlet Khater & Taramsa (E) 6300 Yumuktepe (Asia Minor) 3050-2686 Early Dynastic Period (E) 120 kya Barda-Balka (M) 6200 Domuztepe (Asia Minor) 2900-2270 Early Dynastic Period (M) 118 kya Sodmein Cave E) 6200 Ilipinar Hoyuk (Asia Minor) 2900-1695 Mari (Syria) 100 kya Es-Skhul (Israel) 6100-5200 Quarunian industry (E) 2750 Tyre (Phoenicia) 100-08 kya Shanidar Cave (M) 6000 Tepe Gawra (M) 65 kya Amud Cave (P) 2686-2160 Old Kingdom (E) 6000 Tepe Sabz (Iran) 2600 Epic of Gilgamesh (M) 60 kya Levalloiso-Mousterian industry 6000-5000 Hassuna culture (M) 2500-2000 Awan Dynasty (Iran) 60-48 kya Kebara Cave (Israel) 2400 Amorites (Syria/Mesopotamia) 55 kya Taramsa (E) 6000-5000 Shamarkian industry (E) 6000-5000 Shimshara (M) 2400 Babylon (M) 52 kya Ras el-Kelb (Phoenicia) 2400 Kerma (Nubia) 45 kya Ksar Akil (Phoenicia) 6000-5000 Umm Dabaghiyah (M) 6000-4000 Tell el-Oueili (M) 2296-2271 Lugalzagesi (M) 45-35 kya Aurignacian culture 6000-2900 Predynastic Period (M) 2270-2083 Akkad Period (M) 43-30 kya Aterian industry (E) 6000-1190 Ugarit (Syria) 2240 C-Group (Nubia) 41-33 kya Khormusan industry (E) 2200-1531 Amorites 5700-3250 Bashendi culture (E) 40-35 kya Nazlet Khater 4 (E) 2160-2055 1st Intermediate Period (E) 5600-5000 Samarra culture (M) 40-18 kya Halfan industry (E) 5600-5000 Arpachiyah (M) 2141-2050 Gutian Period (M) 36-27 kya Baradostian industry (M) 5600-5000 Yarim Tepe (M) 2055-1650 Middle Kingdom (E) 35 kya Cro-Magnons 5500 Aqab (Syria) 2047-1940 Ur III Period (M) 35 kya Shukbah Cave (P) 5500 Norsuntepe (southeast of Elazig, AM) 2000-1900 Simashki Dynasty (Iran) 25-22 kya Shuwikhatian industry (E) 5500 Tell es-Sawwan (M) 2000-1353 Old Assyrian Period (Assyria) 21.0-19.5 kya Fakhurian industry (E) 5500-4500 Halaf culture (M) 2000-1200 Canaanites 5450-4400 Faiyumian culture (E) 1940 Elamites sack Ur (M) Epipalaeolithic (20 kya) 5400-2200 Sheikh Muftah culture (E) 1940-1728 Larsa-Isin Period (M) 20-12 kya Kebaran industry (P) 5300-3050 Predynastic Period (E) 1900-1600 Amorites 19.4 kya Ohalo II (P) 5000 Arslantepe (Asia Minor) 1900-1500 Epartid Dynasty (Iran) 19.0-16.5 kya Kubbaniyan industry (E) 5000 Byblos (Phoenicia) 1830-1531 Old Babylonian Period (M) 18.0-11.6 kya Okuzini Cave (Asia Minor) 5000 Eridu (M) 1800 Nineveh (Assyria) 16-15 kya Silsilian/Ballanan industries (E) 5000 Godin Tepe (Iran) 1800-1531 Yamhad/Aleppo (Syria) 14.5-12.0 kya Natufian culture (P) 5000 Tepe Hissar (Iran) 1728-1686 Hammurabi (Babylon) 14.5-11.5 kya Mureybet (Syria) 5000-3750 Ubaid culture (M) 1650-1550 2nd Intermediate Period (E) 14 kya Tushka (E) 4900-4300 Merimde culture (E) 1650-1550 Hyksos (E) 1600-1420 Old Kingdom (H) 14.0-12.5 kya Qadan industry (E) 4800 Tarifian culture (E) 1550 Kamose drives Hyksos from Egypt 14-12 kya Gebel Sahaba (E) 4600-4400 Omari culture (E) 14-12 kya Pelegawra Cave (M) 1550-1069 New Kingdom (E) 13.5 kya Abu Hureyra (Syria) 4500 Tasian culture (E) 1550-1295 Thutmosids (E) 4500 Beycesultan (Asia Minor) 1531 Hittites capture Babylon 4500 Tepe Yahya (Iran) Aceramic Neolithic (13 kya) 1531-729 Middle Babylonian Period (M) 12.9 kya Makhadma-4 (E) 4500-3400 Ghassul-Beersheba culture (P) 1500 Egyptians occupy southern Syria 12.9-12.3 kya Afian industry (E) 1500 Valley of the Kings (E) Chalcolithic (4500 BC) 12.7-11.5 kya Isnan industry (E) 1500-1350 Kidinuid Dynasty (Iran) 4400 Tal-i Iblis (Iran) 1500-1260 Mitanni (AM/Syria) 12.5-8.00 kya Zarzian industry (M) 4400-4000 Badarian culture (E) 1457 Battle of Megiddo (P) 12-10 kya Ein Mallaha (P) 1420-1178 Hittite Empire (H) 9600 Hallan Cemi Tepesi (AM) 4400-3200 Maadi culture (E) 9000 Gobekli Tepe (Asia Minor) 4100 Hacinebi Tepe (Asia Minor) 1353-935 Middle Assyrian Period (Assyria) © antiquityplus.com 2018 2081 .
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