In:
Paléorient, PERSEE Program, Vol. 42, No. 1 ( 2016), p. 137-149
Abstract:
The publication in the current issue of the journal Paléorient of a paper about the revision of the date of the most ancient levels at Tell es-Sawwan offers the opportunity to restart a complex debate. The investigations on the site were stopped by the international crisis of the 1990s. On the basis of the last excavations conducted on the site by a French team, we discuss here this chronological attribution. The issue remains hard to solve because of the nature of the documentation. However, an early date (beginning of the Pottery Neolithic) appears to be the only possibility for opening a wider debate on the neolithization of the Mesopotamian alluvial plain. Scattered elements are collected here in order to suggest the possibility of a local phenomenon.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0153-9345
DOI:
10.3406/paleo.2016.5697
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
2016
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2317127-3
SSG:
6,22
SSG:
6,11
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