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Delineating the End of a World: Reassessing the Ubaid/post-Ubaid Transition in Greater Mesopotamia

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Ubaid Culture

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Current Paléorient thematic issue for chronology and reassessment of the Ubaid/post-Ubaid transition.

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The listed archaeological sources document regionally varied Ubaid settlement, ceramic, exchange, and transition processes in prehistoric Mesopotamia.

The archaeological culture is well supported. The strongest symbolic and alien claims are not supported by the evidence.
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“Ubaid” denotes an archaeological horizon with regional variation, not a demonstrated single people.

Answer / theory: Not exactly. It is pre-Sumerian or proto-southern-Mesopotamian background, but we cannot call Ubaid people Sumerians in the later written sense. What supports it: Ubaid precedes Sumer in the same broad region. What is weak or disputed: Language and identity are unknown without writing. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence.
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The listed transition scholarship places Ubaid developments before later Chalcolithic transformations without establishing a single linear route to urbanism.

Answer / theory: Ubaid communities helped create the village, temple, and irrigation background for cities, but full urbanism is clearer in the Uruk period. What supports it: Eridu and settlement growth. What is weak or disputed: City definitions vary. Evidence level: Plausible but oversimplified.
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