Prehistoric Mesopotamian culture whose painted pottery and irrigation-farming villages laid the social groundwork for the world's first cities.
Gave rise, in the south, to the urban Uruk period; the Ubaid cultural sphere is generally seen as the direct antecedent of Sumerian civilization.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Ubaid Period — the shape you scrub through changes in 5500 BC · 4999 BC · 4300 BC.
Classic survey of Mesopotamian prehistory and history, covering the Ubaid period in depth.
Archaeological synthesis of Ubaid-through-Uruk Mesopotamia.
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