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  1. Epipalaeolithic Near East - Wikipedia

    • The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near East. It is the period after the Upper Palaeolithic and before the Neolithic, between approximately 20,000 and 10,000 years Before Present (BP). The people of the Epipalaeolithic were nomadic hunter-gatherers who generally liv… See more

    Levant

    The Early Epipalaeolithic, also known as Kebaran, lasted from 20,000 to 12,150 BP. It followed the Upper Paleolithic Levantine Aurignacian (formerly called Antelian) period throughout the Levant. By the end of the Levantine … See more

    Other regions

    Until recently, it was thought that the Arabian Peninsula was too arid and inhospitable for human settlement in the Late Pleistocene. The earliest known sites belonged to the early Neolithic, c. 9000 to 8000 BP, a… See more

     
  1. Maps of Neolithic & Bronze Age migrations around …

    Tracing the diffusion of Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age cultures and peoples from the Middle East to Europe through DNA.

     
  2. Atlas of prehistory - Wikimedia Commons

  3. List of cities of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

    The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age, with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ebla is estimated to have had a population of …

  4. Chapter 5: The Bronze Age Near East - Purdue …

    In broadest terms, scholars tend to characterize Bronze Age Near Eastern history in three phases: Early Bronze Age (3100-2100 BC), Middle Bronze Age (2100-1600), and Late Bronze Age (1600-1200). These approximate phases are of …

  5. Near East - World History Encyclopedia

    Oct 23, 2022 · The Near East is a modern-age term for the region formerly known as the Middle East comprising Armenia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and part of Turkey, corresponding to ancient …

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  7. The Ancient Near East – Introduction to Art History I

    Map of the Ancient Near East (courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) Some of the earliest complex urban centers can be found in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (early cities also arose …

  8. Ancient Near East - Wikipedia

  9. Near East (Including Anatolia): Geographic …

    This entry examines the general theoretical issue of biocultural evolution in the context of Near Eastern geography, climate, ecology, and Stone Age prehistory.

  10. Stone Age ‑ Definition, Tools & Periods - HISTORY

    Jan 12, 2018 · Lasting roughly 2.5 million years, the Stone Age ended around 5,000 years ago when humans in the Near East began working with metal and making tools and weapons from bronze. During the...