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    Tell Halaf Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
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    a Neolithic culture, later called the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. Tell Halaf is the type...
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    ceramic; by Halaf culture; Erbil Civilization Museum (Erbil, Iraq) Shard; 5600-5000 BC; painted ceramic; 7.19 × 4.19 cm; by Halaf culture Halaf culture female...
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    pottery is currently being excavated in Pre-Halaf to Early Halaf Transitional contexts. The ceramic of this culture is named Samarra ware. Samarra period fine...
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    irrigation was another feature. While the Samarra culture shows signs of social inequality, the Halaf culture appears to be composed of small, disparate communities...
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    decorated with abstract geometric patterns and ornaments, especially in the Halaf culture, also known for its clay fertility figurines, painted with lines. Clay...
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    ceramic; by Halaf culture; Erbil Civilization Museum (Erbil, Iraq) Shard; 5600–5000 BC; painted ceramic; 7.19 × 4.19 cm; by Halaf culture Halaf culture female...
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  • Tepe Gawra The Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period or HUT (c. 5500/5400 to 5200/5000 BC) is a prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. It lies chronologically between...
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    Mesopotamia (section Culture)
    BC) Jarmo (7500–5000 BC) Hassuna (~6000 BC) Samarra (~5700–4900 BC) Halaf cultures (~6000–5300 BC) Ubaid period (~6500–4000 BC) Uruk period (~4000–3100...
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    Pottery Neolithic (Fertile Crescent, 6400–4500 BC) Halaf culture (Mesopotamia, 6100 BC and 5100 BC) Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period (Mesopotamia, 5500–5000...
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    Ubaid period (redirect from Ubaid culture)
    runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period and succeeded by the Late Chalcolithic...
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    Natufian culture (/nəˈtuːfiən/) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15...
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    spanned the years 4000 BC to 3001 BC. Some of the major changes in human culture during this time included the beginning of the Bronze Age and the invention...
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    The Capsian culture was a late Mesolithic and Neolithic culture centered in the Maghreb that lasted from about 8,000 to 2,700 BC.[is this date calibrated...
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    The Vinča culture [ʋîːntʃa], also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast...
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    Tell Hassuna Tell Shemshara The Hassuna culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture in northern Mesopotamia dating to the early sixth millennium BC...
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    The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German...
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    El Khiam The Khiamian culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southwest Asia, dating to the earliest part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)...
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    Proto-Elamite period, and they follow the development of stamp seals in the Halaf culture or slightly earlier. They are linked to the invention of the latter's...
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    frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC (Halaf culture) and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or...
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    Tell Brak (category Halaf culture)
    including the Halaf pottery. In Brak Period B (c. 5900-5200 BC), the Halaf Culture Halaf culture transformed into Period C (c. 5200-4400 BC) Northern Ubaid, and...
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    The Peiligang culture was a Neolithic culture in the Yi-Luo river basin (in modern Henan Province, China) that existed from about 7000 to 5000 BC. Over...
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    in the world. Agricultural communities emerged in the area with the Halaf culture around 8000 BC and continued to expand through the Ubaid period around...
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    Yarim Tepe (category Halaf culture)
    several hills reflecting the development of the Hassuna culture, and then of the Halaf and Ubaid cultures. The settlement was investigated between 1969 and...
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  • Ireland were severed from continental Europe by rising seawater. Neolithic culture and technology were established in the Near East by 7000 BC and there is...
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  • civilization, Oaxaca, Mexico) Tell Halaf, Syria, for the Halaf culture Tell Hassuna, Iraq, for the Hassuna culture Jemdet Nasr, Iraq, for the Jemdet Nasr...
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    Prehistorical Syria Levantine corridor Natufian culture Halaf culture Uruk period Abu Hureyra Aswad Yarmukian culture Ancient Syria Amorites Akkadian Empire Arameans...
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    Prehistory Levantine Aurignacian Kebaran culture Mushabian culture Natufian culture Halaf culture Ghassulian culture Ancient history Kish Ebla Armi Mari Nagar...
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    frequent, indicating that domesticated cattle were imported during the Halaf culture from the central Fertile Crescent region. Results of genetic research...
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    to the axle supported in a bearing, which serves as a fulcrum. The Halaf culture of 6500–5100 BCE has been credited with the earliest depiction of a...
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