CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
FOR FOURTH MILLENNIUM
SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA
xxiTable 0.1Date BC Southern Mesopotamia Uruk (Eanna) ‘Late Chalcolithic’3000 IVA
Late Uruk Eanna LC 5
IVB–V
Late
Eanna
VI
3400 Late Middle Uruk Eanna LC 4
VII
3600
Early Middle Uruk Eanna IX–VIII LC 3
3800 Eanna XI–X
Late
Early Uruk Eanna XII
LC 2
4000
Early
4200 Eanna XVI–XIV
Ubaid transitional LC 1
Ubaid 4?
c. 3150 / 3100 – 2900 Jamdat Nasr PeriodSource: After Rothman 2001 : 7.