ANTH 2820 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ubaid Period, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent
9 Feb 2017
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Samarra, halaf, and ubaid (6500 4200 bce) 7000 bce scattered farming villages: clusters of mud-brick houses growing wheat, barely, and pulses; herded sheep, goats, cattle and pigs, made pottery; copper metallurgy, societies joined together, not isolated. Revealed by spread of obsidian (each volcanic source has chemical. Stages fingerprint: some overlap in space and time but can determine succession of stages / periods, proto-hassuna = earliest. Early 7,000: hassuna (6500-6000 bce) parallel to samarra (6500-5900 bce, halaf (6000-5400 bce) from hassuna and ubaid (5900-4200 bce) from. Hassuna area = clustered in fertile crescent: by samarra phase: farming villages extend past just super fertile zone. Need canal systems (found at choga mami) Communal food high level of community organization. Confined to central area of mesopotamian plain: gave way to the ubaid period (6000 4200 bce, depending on irrigation. Disused canal systems and types of wheat and barley that could only been grown under irrigation.
