Beyond the Ubaid
Subtitle: transformation and integration in the late prehistoric societies of the Middle East
By: edited by Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip
Contributors: University of Chicago. Oriental Institute; Grey College (University of Durham)
Series: Studies in ancient oriental civilization -- no. 63; Studies in ancient oriental civilization -- no. 63.
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781885923660
Subjects: Civilization; Congresses; Prehistoric Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Ubaid culture
Other titles: Transformation and integration in the late prehistoric societies of the Middle East
Notes: "Papers from The Ubaid Expansion? Cultural Meaning, Identity and the Lead-up to Urbanism, international workshop held at Grey College, University of Durham, 20-22 April 2006."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Deconstructing the Ubaid  -- Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip; title: Local identities and interaction spheres : modeling regional variation in the Ubaid horizon  -- Gil J. Stein; title: More thoughts on the Ubaid period  -- Joan Oates; title: The Halaf-Ubaid transition : a transformation without a center?  -- Philip Karsgaard; title: Questioning the Halaf-Ubaid transition  -- Stuart Campbell and Alexandra Fletcher; title: The dead hand of Deimel  -- McGuire Gibson; title: Practices of daily life in fifth-millennium B.C. Iran and Mesopotamia  -- Susan Pollock; title: Figuring out identity : the body and identity in the Ubaid  -- Karina Croucher; title: Ubaid headshaping : negotiations of identity through physical appearance?  -- Kirsi O. Lorentz; title: A snake in the grass : reassessing the ever-intriguing Ophidian figurines  -- Aurelie Daems; title: The term "Hajji Muhammad" : a re-evaluation  -- Harriet Crawford; title: The development of wool exploitation in Ubaid-period settlements of North Mesopotamia  -- Hiroshi Sudo; title: Ubaid lithics revisited : their significance for the interpretation of Ubaid society  -- Elizabeth Healey; title: Buttress-recess architecture and status symbolism in the Ubaid period  -- Uwe Sievertsen; title: A monumental failure : the collapse of Susa  -- Frank Hole; title: Ubaid-related-related? : the "black-on-buff" ceramic traditions of highland southwest Iran  -- Lloyd Weeks, Cameron A. Petrie, and Daniel T. Potts; title: Bakun-period sites in Darre-Ye Bolāghi, Fars  -- Barbara Helwing and Mojgan Seyedin; title: The emergence of Ubaid styles at Tell Kurdu : a local perspective  -- Rana Özbal; title: An aspect of the Ubaid intrusion in the Syrian Upper Euphrates Valley  -- Yayoi Yamazaki; title: The Ubaid in the Balikh Valley, Northern Syria : Balikh periods IV-V  -- Maria Giuseppina Trentin; title: Networks of interregional interaction during Mesopotamia's Ubaid period  -- Bradley J. Parker; title: Exploring social organizational aspects of the Ubaid communities : a case study of Değirmentepe in eastern Turkey  -- Bekir Gurdil; title: Godedzor, a Late Ubaid-related settlement in the Southern Caucasus -- Christine Chataigner ... [et al.].