Late Palaeolithic

20000-8000

Anatolia Zagros & Indus Central Egypt

& Levant Mesopotamia Valley Asia

Kebaran Zarzian --- ---- Kom Ombo

Natufian Zawi Chemi Shanidar

Early Neolithic

8000-6000

Anatolia Zagros & Indus Central Egypt

& Levant Mesopotamia Valley Asia

PPNA/[PPNB] Mureybit Mergarh Jeitun ----

Jericho

Cayonu Ali Kosh

Ain Ghazal

Beidha Jarmo

Mature Neolithic

6500-5000

Anatolia Zagros & Indus Central Egypt

& Levant Mesopotamia Valley Asia

PPNB Umm Dabaghiya Mergarh Jeitun [Fayum A]

Jericho

Hassuna

Halaf

Catal Huyuk

Samarra

Hacilar

Origins of Hydraulic Civilization

5000-3000

Mesopotamia Iran Indus Central Egypt

Valley Asia (predynastic)

Upper Lower

Ubaid Susa Mergarh Jeitun Badarian Fayum A (5300-3600) Sequence (5-4000) Merimde

(4000-2000) Mundigak Geoksyur/ (5-4000)

Uruk Namazga Amratian (3600-3200) Proto-Elam Kili Ghul III-IV (4000- El Omari Muhammad (3300- 3500) (3800-

Jemdet Nasr II-III 2700) 3200) (3200-2900) Gerzean

(3500- 3000)

Bronze Age Civilization

3200-2000

Mesopotamia Indus Valley Central Asia Egypt

Jemdet Nasr Early Harrapan Geoksyur/ Gerzean

(3200-2900) (3500-2500) Namazga III-IV (3500-3100)

(3300-2700)

Early Dynastic Mature Harrapan Early

(2900-2340) (2500-1700) Dynastic

Late Namazga IV (3100-2550)

Akkadian Early Namazga V 2340-2150 (2700-2200) Old Kingdom (2550-2130) Bactrian-Margiana

Arch. Complex (1900-1700)

Mature Bronze Age Civilization

2500-1700

Mesopotamia Indus Valley Central Asia Egypt

Akkadian Mature Harrapan Late Namazga V Old Kingdom

(2340-2150) (2500-1700) (2200-1900) (2550-2130)

Ur III Bactrian-Margiana 1st Intermediate (2111-2000) Arch. Complex (2130-2040)

(1900-1700)

Larsa-Isin Middle Kingdom

(2000-1900) (2040-1640)

Old Babylonian

(1900-1600)

CHRONOLOGICAL SCHEME FOR MIDDLE EAST 20,000-1600 B.C.

Anatolia Zagros & Indus Central Egypt

& Levant Mesopotamia Valley Asia

Late

Palaeolithic

20-8000 BC

Early

Neolithic

8-6000 BC

Mature

Neolithic

6500-5000 BC

Origins of

Hydraulic

Civilization

5-3000 BC

Early

Bronze Age

Civilization

3200-2400 BC

Mature

Bronze Age

Civilization

2500-1600 BC