Encyclopedia of Prehistory: Volume 8: South and Southwest AsiaPeter N. Peregrine, Melvin Ember Springer Science & Business Media, 31.3.2003 - 413 sivua The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory ofhumankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries. but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship tics play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and lime periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord· texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties arc central to defining ethno is defined as a group ofpopulations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices. technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms oj sociopolitical organizati01I, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry. |
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Aceramic Neolithic | 1 |
Göbekli Tepe 15 Jarmo 15 Jericho | 20 |
Central Indian Chalcolithic | 34 |
Chalcolithic | 56 |
Thomas E Levy | 74 |
Northern Culture 95 Southern | 100 |
Epipaleolithic | 122 |
Gangetic India | 133 |
Indus Neolithic 151 Rafaq 2 249 Rumeilah 250 Shimal | 250 |
Iranian Bronze Age 156 Juris Zarins | 257 |
GorganDamghan 165 Kerman 167 Mitchell S Rothman | 271 |
Peter N Peregrine | 281 |
Middle Arabian Littoral 284 South Indian Chalcolithic | 344 |
Juris Zarins | 360 |
Bagor 320 Adamgarh 321 Baghor | 379 |
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Eastern and Southern Periphery | 141 |
Arpachiyah 146 Girikihaciyan 147 Tell Peter Magee | 149 |
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agricultural Ain Ghazal animals appear Arabian Archaeology architecture artifacts assemblage B.P. LOCATION beads blades bone burials cattle Cave centers central ceramic Chalcolithic Chalcolithic period chiefdoms clay climate coastal communities copper CULTURAL SUMMARY Deccan decorated deer DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY DIAGNOSTIC MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES domestic Early Bronze Age Economy Environment Epipaleolithic evidence Excavations Expressive Culture figurines gazelle goat Halafian Harappan Hole Holocene houses hunting India indicate Indus Iran Iranian Iraq Iron Age Israel Jordan lithic Mehrgarh Mesolithic Mesopotamia microliths millennium B.C. mound mountains Natufian Negev Neolithic northern onager painted Paléorient Palestine phase plain plateau population pottery PPNB Prehistoric Press production Religion and Expressive river seals settlements Shanidar sheep social Society Sociopolitical Organization South southern Levant stone structures subsistence suggest Syria temple Tepe Tepe Yahya trade tradition Ubaid Ubaid period University Upper Paleolithic Uruk valley vessels villages Wadi walls ware wild Zagros Zagros mountains Zarins