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RadioCarbon or Carbon-14 Dating Addendum: Pre-History and Archaeology Glossary
ABDUL AZIZ / MINA / AMRIT / ANTIOCH / ARVAD (ARWAD) / ASWAD (BALIKH VALLEY) / ASWAD (DAMASCUS BASIN) / ATCHANA (ALALAKH) / BARSIB (AHMAR) / BEYDAR / BOUQRAS / BRAK (NAGAR) [NAWAR] / CHAGAR BAZAR / CHUERA / DAMASCUS / DOUARA CAVE / DURA EUROPUS / EMAR / FAKHARIYAH / GHORAIFE / HABUBA KABIRA (QANNAS) / HAGOSHERIM / HAMAH (HAMATH) [EPIPHANIA] / AIN HASHOMER / HAURAN / HOMS (EMESA) / JANUDIYEH / JERF AJLA / JUDAIDAH / JUDAIDAH JABBUL / KABRI / KADESH / TELL KHAZZAMI / KHIRBET KUM / LABWEH / MASHNAQA / QALAT MUDIQ / MUGHARET ABDE / MUREYBAT / QARQUR / QAT / QATNA (MISHRIFEH) [KATNA] / RAMAD / RAMITHA (LAODICEA) / SABI ABYAD / SAIDNAYA / SHEIKH / SHEIKH ALI / SLENFE / SUKAS / SWEYHAT / TABBAT HAMMAM / TANNUR / TARTUS / TERQA (ASHARA) / TUNEINIR / TURMUS / UGARIT (RAS SHAMRA) / URKESH (MOZAN) |
For the Neolithic Period, Syria provides some of the earliest evidence in the world for the onset of sedentary and agricultural life, a salient contribution to our understanding of how and why this phenomenon occurred. In the Late Neolithic, private property -- social inequality -- economic specialization became increasingly apparent, paving the way for the development of urban societies. When complex societies emerge, their trajectory provides a useful contrast to the well known paradigm from southern Mesopotamia ..... Syria is often styled a crossroads of civilization. Located at the intersection of major traffic routes of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, the region was traversed by caravans and military expeditions moving between the economic and political poles of the ancient Near Eastern world; from Egypt to Anatolia and from the Mediterranean to Mesopotamia (Cambridge University Press 2004)
