Publisher's Synopsis
The Late Chalcolithic settlement levels in Giricano provide an uninterrupted overview of the cultural development along the Upper Tigris valley from the Ubaid period to the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. The material culture of the settlement that was founded in phase LC 1 shows that the culture that has hitherto been considered only to extend into the area that forms modern-day northern Iraq must in fact have spread as far at the foothills of the Taurus Mountains. This volume not only explores the cultural development of the settlement through analysis of the architecture, ceramics and other small finds from Giricano, bur crucially, offers new insights into the site through a discussion of its broader context as part of the wider cultural development of the region.
