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)