The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the...

(19 mi) east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of...

recorded name of a person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley...

come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500...

identified with the Ubaid period, but it is not known whether or not these were Sumerians (associated later with the Uruk period). Dates are approximate...

replaced by the Uruk period. In Northern Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid...

preceding Uruk period and continues into the Early Dynastic I period. Jemdet Nasr Abu Salabikh Tell Fara Tell Uqair Khafajah Nippur Ur Uruk In the early...

that is generally dated to c. 2900 – c. 2350 BC and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods. It saw the development of writing and the formation...

Uruk period. Uruk period "King-Priest" In North Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and...

Look up Uruk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uruk was a city in ancient Sumer. Uruk may also refer to: Uruk period, the archaeological culture or time...