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Document Details : Title: The Euphrates Valley and Early Bronze Age Ceramic Traditions Author(s): JAMIESON, Andrew S. Journal: Ancient Near Eastern Studies Volume: 31 Date: 1993 Pages: 36-92 DOI: 10.2143/ANES.31.0.525733 Abstract : There has been no univeral adoption of a terminology for the chronology of the north Syrian Early Bronze Age, a period generally understood to span ca. 3100/3000-2000 BC. A spate of differing terminologies attest to this lack of scholarly consensus. Excavators have developed internal periodization for individual sites and attempted to relate their results either to the better known Palestinian or Mesopotamian chronological schemes. The first utilises the designations EBA I, II, III, IV A/B, the second employs the historical names Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic I, II, III, Akkadian/Sargonic, Gutian and Ur III. This terminology is ill-defined for northern Syria and its inconsistent use has hindered our understanding of the period under consideration. |
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