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Illustration
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Late antiquity
Historical frame for late ancient transformations; boundaries vary by region and subject.
Modern distinction between the dates of witnesses surrounding this study, not fixed boundaries for late antiquity or a borrowing chain
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Period
Natufian culture
A late Epipalaeolithic Levantine archaeological culture, with some long-duration settlements before fully developed agriculture.
Aerial view of Shubayqa 1, northeast Jordan, Figure 1 in Richter et al. (2017), with a location map. Natufian architecture; no specific religious function is established
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Ubaid culture
An archaeological designation for material traditions originating in southern Mesopotamia with regional diffusion. Broad southern frame c. 6500–3800 BCE; not a known linguistic people, with limits varying by region and phase.
Ubaid bowl from Eridu cemetery, grave 136; mid-sixth–fifth millennium BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.133.2. A specific archaeological object, not a representation of all Ubaid pottery
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic
A regional term for early Neolithic phases in Southwest Asia before the local spread of pottery; it does not imply an absence of settlement, architecture or cereal processing.
Building D at Göbekli Tepe, photographed in 2019. Central and perimeter pillars show the building’s arrangement. The visible shelter and support braces are modern conservation measures, not a reconstructed ancient roof
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Late Bronze Age
An archaeological period conventionally around 1600–1200 BCE in much of the Near East, with regional variation.
An object from the Late Bronze Age: fragment of a Ugaritic alphabet tablet, c. 1400–1200 BCE; Louvre, AO 19992 / RS 10.087. This image illustrates one object, not every society of the period
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