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| Woolley also played a role in the piecing together of the chronology of Mesopotamian prehistory. His work at Tell al ‘Ubaid and [[Nineveh (Tell Kuyunjik/Nebi Yunus)|Nineveh]], along with that of a German team at Uruk, [[Langdon, Stephen Herbert|Stephen Langdon]] at Jemdet Nasr, Max von Oppenheim at Tell Halaf, [[Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien|Max Mallowan]] at Nineveh, Arpachiya, Tell Brak, and Chagar Bazar, [[Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor|Ephraim Speiser]] at Tepe Gawra, Ernst Herzfeld at Hassuna, and Seton Lloyd and Faud Safar at Samarra helped to establish the pottery-based historical sequence of Mesopotamia from the Halaf to the Early Dynastic period. | Woolley also played a role in the piecing together of the chronology of Mesopotamian prehistory. His work at Tell al ‘Ubaid and [[Nineveh (Tell Kuyunjik/Nebi Yunus)|Nineveh]], along with that of a German team at Uruk, [[Langdon, Stephen Herbert|Stephen Langdon]] at Jemdet Nasr, Max von Oppenheim at Tell Halaf, [[Mallowan, Max Edgar Lucien|Max Mallowan]] at Nineveh, Arpachiya, Tell Brak, and Chagar Bazar, [[Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor|Ephraim Speiser]] at Tepe Gawra, Ernst Herzfeld at Hassuna, and Seton Lloyd and Faud Safar at Samarra helped to establish the pottery-based historical sequence of Mesopotamia from the Halaf to the Early Dynastic period. |
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| In the 1930’s the [http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/INFO/OIBH/OIBH.html Oriental Institute] of the University of Chicago under the directorship of [[Breasted, James Henry|James Henry Breasted]], sent a team to excavate several sites in the Diyala region of Iraq. Excavations by [[Frankfort, Henri|Henri Frankfort]], [[Delougaz, Pinhas|Pinhas Delougaz]], [[Jacobsen, Thorkild|Thorkild Jacobsen]], and Seton Lloyd at [[Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)|Tell Asmar]], Khafaje, and Tell Agrab established a broad understanding of the Early Dynastic period. The period before World War II also saw continued work by Germans at Uruk, and a new interest in sites in Syria, including ancient Mari, excavated by [[Parrot, André|André Parrot]]. | In the 1930’s the [[http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/INFO/OIBH/OIBH.html|Oriental Institute]] of the University of Chicago under the directorship of [[Breasted, James Henry|James Henry Breasted]], sent a team to excavate several sites in the Diyala region of Iraq. Excavations by [[Frankfort, Henri|Henri Frankfort]], [[Delougaz, Pinhas|Pinhas Delougaz]], [[Jacobsen, Thorkild|Thorkild Jacobsen]], and Seton Lloyd at [[Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)|Tell Asmar]], Khafaje, and Tell Agrab established a broad understanding of the Early Dynastic period. The period before World War II also saw continued work by Germans at Uruk, and a new interest in sites in Syria, including ancient Mari, excavated by [[Parrot, André|André Parrot]]. |
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