‎Paola Sconzo, Marco Iamoni, Luca Peyronel, Johnny Samuele Baldi (eds)‎
‎Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia in Context. Papers from the Workshop held at the 11th ICAANE in Munich, April 5th ?2018‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xxii + 263 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:52 b/w, 16 col., 9 tables b/w., 20 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503596044.‎

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‎Summary Many of the debates that have until recently driven research into Mesopotamia's proto-urban phase (5th- 4th millennia BCE) have now been reassessed thanks to new fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan and new data into the relationships between the north and south of the Alluvium from hitherto poorly-documented regions. These debates were re-examined in the light of this new material during a workshop held at the ICAANE in 2018 in Munich, leading to unprecedented perspectives on the patterns of early urbanization, social mobility, and the organization of Late Chalcolithic communities. Drawing on research first presented at ICAANE, and building on the most recent data from surveys and excavations, this volume engages with one key question from different angles: namely, how can we reconcile detailed analysis of the multifaceted local variations of proto-urbanism with the supra-regional, intricate, and more widespread nature of this same phenomenon across Mesopotamia? TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Late Chalcolithic of Northern Mesopotamia in Context: Building on a Long and Eventful Debate ? JOHNNY SAMUELE BALDI, MARCO IAMONI, LUCA PEYRONEL & PAOLA SCONZO Unravelling Early Urbanism and Cultural Encounters in Late Chalcolithic North-eastern Iraq ? TIM BOAZ BRUUN & CARLO COLANTONI Beyond Subsistence? Settlement Strategies of the Late Chalcolithic Period in the Selevani Plain (Upper Iraqi Tigris) ? MARCO IAMONI & PAOLA SCONZO? Un air de famille. Preliminary Observations on the Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic Horizon of the Shahrizor Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan) ? MARIA BIANCA D'ANNA, OLIVIER NIEUWENHUYSE & SIMONE MÜHL The 'Uruk Conundrum' in the Shahrizor, Iraqi-Kurdistan: Petrographic Developments, Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connections at Gird-i Shamlu and Gurga Chiya ? MICHAEL P. LEWIS Towards a Definition of the Late Chalcolithic Period in the Erbil Plain: The Contribution of the Helawa Pottery Sequence ? AGNESE VACCA & LUCA PEYRONEL? North-eastern Mesopotamian Ceramic Sub-Assemblages and their Potential for Identifying Communication Networks: The Formation of Red/Grey Ware Assemblages during Late Chalcolithic 1 and 2 ? KHALED ABU JAYYAB Bits of Uruk Before and Outside the Uruk Colonial Sphere. The Qara Dagh Area and Some Early Thoughts on a Reassessment of the Uruk Expansion ? JOHNNY SAMUELE BALDI What Complexity? Late Chalcolithic Developments at the Site of Arslantepe in the Upper Euphrates Region ? FRANCESCA BALOSSI RESTELLI On the Edge of Mesopotamia: The Presence of Uruk and Uruk-related Material Culture in the Upper Tigris Region ? ?NAN AYDO?AN, METIN BATIHAN & HALUK SA?LAMTIMUR The Late Chalcolithic Canaanean Blade System in Northern Mesopotamia: Connections with the Uruk Phenomenon? ? FRANCESCA MANCLOSSI Conclusions: Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia. Setting the Agenda in the Debate on the Rise of Urbanization in the Ancient Near East ? JOHNNY SAMUELE BALDI, MARCO IAMONI, LUCA PEYRONEL & PAOLA SCONZO‎