Radiocarbon Dates from Mesopotamian Sites

The tables below list published radiocarbon dates from Mesopotamian sites (4th-3rd mill. BC). For a comprehensive database of radiocarbon dates for earlier prehistoric periods, see Reading Middle East Radiocarbon Database. Please note that the dates are quoted in uncalibrated format. Calibration of radiocarbon dates can be performed using free, easy to use software available on-line. The most popular calibration programs include:

OxCal (University of Oxford)
BCal (University of Sheffield)

1. Ambers, J. C. (2001). Radiocarbon Results for Tell Brak. In D. Oates, J. Oates, & H. McDonald (Eds.), Excavations at Tell Brak 2: Nagar in the Third Millennium BC (pp. 373–378). Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs.
2. Barker, H., & Mackey, J. (1961). British Museum natural radiocarbon measurements III. Radiocarbon, 3(1), 39–45.
3. Boehmer, R. M. (1991). 14C-Daten aus Uruk und Abydos - Ägytisches (?) im Frühen Nordsyrien, Sumer und Elam. Baghdader Mitteilungen, 22, 223–230.
4. Bowman, S. G. E., Ambers, J. C., & Leese, M. N. (1990). Re-evaluation of British Museum radiocarbon dates issued between 1980 and 1984. Radiocarbon, 32(1), 59–79.
5. Buccellati, G., & Kelly-Buccellati, M. (1995). The Identification of Urkesh with Tell Mozan (Syria). Orient-Express, 1995(3), 67–70.
6. Courty, M. A. (2001). Evidence at Tell Brak for the Late ED III/Early Akkadian Air Blast Event (4kyr BP). In D. Oates, J. Oates, & H. MacDonald (Eds.), Excavations at Tell Brak 2: Nagar in the Third Millennium BC (pp. 367–72). Cambridge: Macdonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
7. Creekmore, A. T. (2008). Kazane Höyük and Urban Life Histories in Third Millennium Upper Mesopotamia. Northwestern University.
8. Curvers, H. H., & Schwartz, G. M. (1990). Excavations at Tell al-Raqā’i: A Small Rural Site of Early Urban Northern Mesopotamia. American Journal of Archaeology, 94(1), 3–23.
9. Ess, van, M. (2013). Neue Radiokarondatierungen aus Uruk. In N. Crüsemann, M. van Ess, M. Hilgert, & B. Salje (Eds.), Uruk: 5000 Jahre Megacity. Petersburg: Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen.
10. Ess, van, M. (2015). Absolute Chronology of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr Periods at Uruk, Southern Mesopotamia. The Interpretation of Additional 14C Samples. Zeitschrift Für Orient-Archäologie, 8, 10–37.
11. Fishman, B., Forbes, H., & Lawn, B. (1977). University of Pennsylvania Radiocabron Dates XIX. Radiocarbon, 19(2), 188–288.
12. Hole, F. (2001). A Radiocarbon Chronology for the Middle Khabur, Syria. Iraq, 63, 67–98.
13. Hritz, C., Pournelle, J., Smith, J., Albadran, B., Issa, B. M., & Al-Handal, A. (2012). Mid-Holocene Dates For Organic-Rich Sediment, Palustrine Shell, And Charcoal From Southern Iraq. Radiocarbon, 54(1), 65–79.
14. Lawn, B. (1973). University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates XV. Radiocarbon, 15(2), 367–381.
15. Lebeau, M., & Milano, L. (2003). Radiocarbon Determinations for Tell Beydar. In M. Lebeau & A. Suleiman (Eds.), Tell Beydar, the 1995-1999 Seasons of Excavations (pp. 15–20). Brepols: Turnhout.
16. Matthews, R. J. (2003). The Excavations at Tell Brak 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian regional centre, 1994-96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. Milano, L., & Rova, E. (2008). New Discoveries of the Ca’ Foscari University Venice Team at Tell Beydar (Syria). In J. M. Córdoba, M. Molist, M. C. Pérez, I. Rubio, & S. Martínez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (pp. 587–608). Madrid: UAM Ediciones.
18. Postgate, J. N. (1977). Excavations at Abu Salabikh, 1976. Iraq, 39(2), 269–299.
19. Ristvet, L. (2011). Radiocarbon. In M. Lebeau (Ed.), Jezirah (pp. 301–326). Turnhout: Brepols.
20. Ristvet, L., Guilderson, T., & Weiss, H. (2004). The Dynamics of State Development and Imperialization at Third Millennium Tell Leilan, Syria. Orient-Express, 8, 68–75.
21. Saghieh, M. (1991). The Lebanese University Recent Excavations at Tell Kerma: a Salvage Operation on the Middle Khabur, NE Syria. In L. Meyer, de & H. Gasche (Eds.), Mesopotamie et Elam : Actes de la XXXVIème rencontre Assyrologique internationale, Gand, 10-14 juillet 1989 (pp. 171–184). Ghent: Ghent University.
22. Schwartz, G. M. (1988). A Ceramic Chronology from Tell Leilan: Operation 1. New York: Hamilton Printing Co.
23. Stuckenrath, R. J., & Ralph, E. K. (1965). University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates VIII. Radiocarbon, 7, 187–199.
24. Weiss, H. (2012). Quantifying Collapse: The Late Third Millennium Khabur Plains. In H. Weiss (Ed.), Seven Generations Since the Fall of Akkad (pp. 1–24). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
25. Weiss, H., Courty, M. A., Wetterstrom, W., Guichard, F., Senior, L., Meadow, R., & Curnow, A. (1993). The genesis and collapse of third millennium north Mesopotamian civilization. Science, 261, 995.
26. Weiss, H., Lillis, de, F., DeMoulins, D., Eidem, J., Guilderson, T., Kasten, U., … Wetterstrom, W. (2002). Revising the contours of history at Tell Leilan. Annales Arch’{e}ologiques Arabes Syriennes, 45, 1–30.
27. Weninger, B., Neef, R., & Meyer, J.-W. (2010). Zur Radiocarbondatierung der Fruehbronzezeit in Tell Chuera (Nordsyrien). In J.-W. Meyer (Ed.), Ausgrabungen in Tell Chuera in Nordost-Syrien II: Vorberichte zu den Grabungskampagnen 1998 bis 2005 (pp. 187–198). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
28. Wright, H. T., & Rupley, E. S. A. (2001). Calibrated Radiocarbon Age Determinations of Uruk-Related Assemblies. In E. Rothman (Ed.), Uruk, Mesopotamia & Its Neighbours: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Ear of State Formation. Santa Fe: SAR.
29. Zaina, F. (2015). Radiocarbon Date from Early Dynastic Kish and the Stratigraphy and Chronology of the YWN Sounding at Tell Ingharra. Iraq, 77(1), 225–234.