Home Region:  Mesopotamia (Southwest Asia)

Southern Mesopotamia Neolithic

G SC WF EQ 2020  iq_so_mesopotamia_nl / IqSoNeo

Preceding:
No Polity found. Add one here.

Succeeding:
No Polity found. Add one here.

No General Descriptions provided.

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Duration:
[9,000 BCE ➜ 5,501 BCE]  
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Language Genus:
NO_VALUE_ON_WIKI  
Religion
Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Population of the Largest Settlement:
-  
Polity Territory:
-  
Polity Population:
-  
Hierarchical Complexity
Settlement Hierarchy:
[1 to 2]  
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Specialized Government Building:
absent  
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Market:
inferred absent  
Irrigation System:
inferred absent  
Food Storage Site:
inferred absent  
Drinking Water Supply System:
inferred absent  
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
  Wooden Palisade:
inferred absent  
  Stone Walls Non Mortared:
inferred absent  
  Stone Walls Mortared:
inferred absent  
  Settlements in a Defensive Position:
unknown  
  Modern Fortification:
absent  
  Moat:
inferred absent  
  Fortified Camp:
inferred absent  
  Earth Rampart:
inferred absent  
  Ditch:
inferred absent  
  Complex Fortification:
inferred absent  
  Long Wall:
absent  
Military use of Metals
  Steel:
absent  
  Iron:
absent  
  Copper:
absent  
  Bronze:
absent  
Projectiles
  Sling:
inferred absent  
  Self Bow:
inferred absent  
  Javelin:
inferred absent  
  Handheld Firearm:
absent  
  Composite Bow:
absent  
  Atlatl:
absent  
Handheld weapons
  War Club:
inferred absent  
  Sword:
inferred absent  
  Spear:
absent  
  Polearm:
inferred absent  
  Dagger:
inferred absent  
  Battle Axe:
inferred absent  
Animals used in warfare
  Horse:
absent  
  Elephant:
absent  
  Donkey:
absent  
  Dog:
unknown  
  Camel:
absent  
Armor
  Shield:
inferred absent  
  Limb Protection:
inferred absent  
  Helmet:
inferred absent  
  Breastplate:
inferred absent  
Naval technology
Religion Tolerance Nothing coded yet.
Human Sacrifice Nothing coded yet.
Crisis Consequences Nothing coded yet.
Power Transitions Nothing coded yet.

NGA Settlements:

Year Range Southern Mesopotamia Neolithic (iq_so_mesopotamia_nl) was in:
 (9000 BCE 5501 BCE)   Southern Mesopotamia
Home NGA: Southern Mesopotamia

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Duration:
[9,000 BCE ➜ 5,501 BCE]

Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Language Genus:
NO_VALUE_ON_WIKI

Religion

Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Population of the Largest Settlement:
-

Inhabitants.


Polity Territory:
-

in squared kilometers


Polity Population:
-

People.


Hierarchical Complexity
Settlement Hierarchy:
[1 to 2]

levels. Nothing in the sources indicate a particularly elaborate settlement hierarchy.


Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Specialized Government Building:
absent

[1]

[1]: (Selin Nugent, pers. comm. with Enrico Cioni, 2019)


Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Market:
absent

[1]

[1]: (Selin Nugent, pers. comm. with Enrico Cioni, 2019)


Irrigation System:
absent

[1]

[1]: (Selin Nugent, pers. comm. with Enrico Cioni, 2019)


Food Storage Site:
absent

[1]

[1]: (Selin Nugent, pers. comm. with Enrico Cioni, 2019)


Drinking Water Supply System:
absent

[1]

[1]: (Selin Nugent, pers. comm. with Enrico Cioni, 2019)


Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System

Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Wooden Palisade:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Stone Walls Non Mortared:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Stone Walls Mortared:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Settlements in a Defensive Position:
unknown


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Fortified Camp:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Earth Rampart:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Complex Fortification:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.



Military use of Metals

[1]

[1]: pers. comm., Selin Nugent 2019


[1]

[1]: pers. comm., Selin Nugent 2019


[1]

[1]: pers. comm., Selin Nugent 2019


[1]

[1]: pers. comm., Selin Nugent 2019


Projectiles

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.



Composite Bow:
absent

"The later third-millennium development of the composite bow revolutionized warfare." [1]

[1]: (McIntosh 2005: 188) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/KK2E3KMD.


New World weapon.


Handheld weapons

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"It was not until iron came into widespread use in the early first millennium that swords in particular and iron weapons in general began to replace the more expensive bronze spears, arrowheads, axes, and daggers of earlier times." [1]

[1]: (McIntosh 2005: 190) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/KK2E3KMD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Battle Axe:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Animals used in warfare

"In Iraq and Syria domesticated donkey appeared during the Late Uruk period (ca. 3600-3100 BCE) at Uruk (Boessneck et al., p. 166), Tell Rubeidheh (Payne, pp. 99-100), and Habuba Kabira (Strommenger and Bollweg, pp. 354-55)". [1]

[1]: (Potts 2012) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/DWHJQHHJ.


"In Iraq and Syria domesticated donkey appeared during the Late Uruk period (ca. 3600-3100 BCE) at Uruk (Boessneck et al., p. 166), Tell Rubeidheh (Payne, pp. 99-100), and Habuba Kabira (Strommenger and Bollweg, pp. 354-55)". [1]

[1]: (Potts 2012) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/DWHJQHHJ.


"In Iraq and Syria domesticated donkey appeared during the Late Uruk period (ca. 3600-3100 BCE) at Uruk (Boessneck et al., p. 166), Tell Rubeidheh (Payne, pp. 99-100), and Habuba Kabira (Strommenger and Bollweg, pp. 354-55)". [1]

[1]: (Potts 2012) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/DWHJQHHJ.



"In Iraq and Syria domesticated donkey appeared during the Late Uruk period (ca. 3600-3100 BCE) at Uruk (Boessneck et al., p. 166), Tell Rubeidheh (Payne, pp. 99-100), and Habuba Kabira (Strommenger and Bollweg, pp. 354-55)". [1]

[1]: (Potts 2012) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/DWHJQHHJ.


Armor

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Limb Protection:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Breastplate:
absent

"As with the rest of the Near East, there is little evidence for warfare in Neolithic Mesopotamia." [1]

[1]: (Hamblin 2006: 33) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/4WM3RBTD.


Naval technology

Human Sacrifice Data
Human Sacrifice is the deliberate and ritualized killing of a person to please or placate supernatural entities (including gods, spirits, and ancestors) or gain other supernatural benefits.
- Nothing coded yet.
- Nothing coded yet.
Power Transitions
- Nothing coded yet.