Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes to Transliterations
1. Introduction- N. Yoffee
a. 1917 -1978 Results (From Sovetskaya Arxeologiya [SA] 1979)
b. 1979-1980 Results (From Sumer 1984)
3. The Early Agricultural Settlement of Tell Sotto - N. O. Bader (From SA 1975)
4. Results of the Excavations at the Early Agricultural Site of Kiiltepe in
Northern Iraq - N. O. Bader (From Arxeologiya Starogo i Novogo Svete [ASNSJ 1982
5. Summary of The Earliest Agriculturalists of Northern Mesopotamia (1989) - N. O. Bader
6. Yarim Tepe I - N. Va. Merpert and R.M. Munchaev
a. The Upper Hassuna Levels (From Iraq 1973)
b. The Lower Hassuna Levels (From Iraq 1987)
7. The Archaic Phase of the Hassuna Culture - N. Va. Merpert
(From ASNS 1982)
a. The Upper Halaf Levels (From Iraq 1973)
b. The Lower Halaf Levels (From Iraq 1987)
a. Results of the 1978-1979 Field Season (From Sumer 1984)a. Results ofthe 1978-1979 Field Season (From Sumer 1984)
b. Results of the 1980 Field Season (From Sumer 1984)
10. Burial Practices of the Halaf Culture - N. Va. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev (From ASNS 1982)
11. Yarim Tepe III: The Ubaid Levels -
N. Va. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev
(From SA 1982)
12. The Earliest Evidence For Metallurgy in Ancient Mesopotamia - N. Va. Merpert and R. M. Munchaev (From Rannezemledel'cheskie Poseleniya Severnoj Mesopotamii 1981)
13. Some Problems in the Archaeology of Mesopotamia in Light of Recent Research by the Soviet Expedition to Iraq - R. M. Munchaev (From Kratkie Soobshcheniya Instituta Arxeologii [KSIAj1984)
14. Mesopotamian Interaction Spheres - N. Yoffee
Select Bibliography
Index