Ancient Near East - Periodization

Periodization

Ancient Near East periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide time into discrete named blocks, or eras, of the Near east. The result is a descriptive abstraction that provides a useful handle on Near East periods of time with relatively stable characteristics.

Copper Age Chalcolithic
(4500 BC - 3300 BC)		 Early Chalcolithic 4500 BC - 4000 BC Ubaid period
Late Chalcolithic 4000 BC - 3300 BC Ghassulian, Uruk period, Gerzeh, Predynastic Egypt
Bronze Age
(3300 BC - 1200 BC)		 Early Bronze Age
(3300 BC - 2000 BC)		 Early Bronze Age I 3300 BC - 3000 BC Protodynastic to Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
Early Bronze Age II 3000 BC - 2700 BC Early Dynastic Period of Sumer
Early Bronze Age III 2700 BC - 2200 BC Old Kingdom of Egypt, Akkadian Empire
Early Bronze Age IV 2100 BC - 2100 BC First Intermediate Period of Egypt
Middle Bronze Age
(2000 BC - 1550 BC)		 Middle Bronze Age I 2100 BC - 2000 BC Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Middle Bronze Age II A 2000 BC - 1750 BC Minoan civilization
Middle Bronze Age II B 1750 BC - 1650 BC Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
Middle Bronze Age II C 1650 BC - 1550 BC Hittite Old Kingdom, Minoan eruption
Late Bronze Age
(1550 BC - 1200 BC)		 Late Bronze Age I 1550 BC - 1400 BC Hittite Middle Kingdom
Late Bronze Age II A 1400 BC - 1300 BC Hittite New Kingdom, Mitanni, Ugarit
Late Bronze Age II B 1300 BC - 1200 BC (Dark Age, Sea Peoples)
Iron Age
(1200 BC - 539 BC)		 Iron Age I
(1200 BC - 1000 BC)		 Iron Age I A 1200 BC - 1150 BC Troy VII, Hekla 3 eruption
Iron Age I B 1150 BC - 1000 BC Neo-Hittite states
Iron Age II
(1000 BC - 539 BC)		 Iron Age II A 1000 BC - 900 BC Neo-Assyrian Empire
Iron Age II B 900 BC - 700 BC Kingdom of Israel, Urartu, Phrygia
Iron Age II C 700 BC - 539 BC Neo-Babylonian Empire

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