====== Archaeological Periodisation ======

==== Periodisation Schemes ====

|**Date (BC)**|**Traditional**|**Alternative**|**[[http://www.arcane.uni-tuebingen.de/EA-EM-EL_phasing_v5-4-6.pdf|ARCANE]]**|**//Chicago// System (Diyala Region)**|**Palaeographic Period**|
|~3500 to ~3100|Late Uruk|Uruk IV, Late Chalcolithic 5 (Rothman 2001)|ESM 1|Protoliterate B||
|~3100 to ~2900|Jemdet Nasr|Uruk III|ESM 2|Protoliterate C-D||
|~2900 to ~2700|Early Dynastic I||ESM 3|Late Protoliterate D|Archaic (Ur texts)|
|~2700 to ~2600|Early Dynastic II|//uncertain//||||
|~2600 to ~2500|Early Dynastic IIIa||ESM 4a||Fara (Fara and and Abu Salabikh texts)|
|~2500 to 2334|Early Dynastic IIIb|Protoimperial|ESM 4b|||

===== Bibliography =====
  - Rothman, M. S. (2001). The Local and the Regional - an Introduction. In M. S. Rothman (Ed.), //Uruk, Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors// (pp. 3–26). Oxford: James Currey.
===== External Links =====
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