Chronological Tables Used in Class: These are by NO MEANS the only dates you are responsible. You are responsible for the dates of other sites or phases discussed in class that are not on this list. Also, if you use information from the textbook to answer a question, you are responsible for any related chronology. These lists are the two that I put up in class, that perhaps you may not have had time to fully digest.

 

Basic Archaeological Cultures of Upper Paleolithic Western and Central Europe

Aurignacian (40,000 – 20?,000 BP)

Gravettian (30,000 – 20?,000 BP in Western Europe, longer in Eastern Europe)

Solutrean (25,000 – 20,000 BP)

Magdalenian (18,000 – 12,000 BP)

 

Mesopotamian Chronology

6000 – 5250 BC Hassunan

5500 – 4700 BC Halafian

5500 – 4500 BC Samarran

5300 – 3600 BC ‘Ubaid

3600 – 3100 BC Warka/Uruk
           3600 – 3200 BC Early Uruk
           3200 – 3100 BC Late Uruk