near-east-chrono.txt, cr 08 apr 2007 by rha on theon

30,000 - 10,000 bc, upper paleolithic
12,000 bc, settlements
10,000 bc, end of ice age, agriculture
10,000 - 9000 bc, final upper paleolithic (early mesolithic)
9000 - 7000 bc, proto-neolithic (rather than mesolithic)
7000 - 5600 bc, neolithic (prepottery, 6000 bc, pottery)
5600 - 5000 bc, early chalcolithic
5000 - 4000 bc, middle chalcolithic
4000 - 3500 bc, late chalcolithic
3500 - 1500 bc, early bronze age, literacy
1500 - 500 bc, iron age (historic)

REFS
Gimbutas, 1999; p. xv
Melaart, 1965; p. 15
Balter

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