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STAGEPERIODPERIOD CODEDATE BC/AD
Paleolithic Paleolithic   1 500,000 − 10,000  
Neolithic Early (Aceramic) Neolithic   2 7250 − 6000
Late (Ceramic) Neolithic:
(Proto-) Hassuna, Samarra		   3 6000 − 5200
Late Neolithic: Halaf   4 5200 − 4500
Chalcolithic Ubaid, Eridu, Haji Mohammad   5 4500 − 4000
Protoliterate Uruk   6 4000 − 3200
Jemdet Nasr   7 3200 − 3000
'Early Historic' Early Dynastic I, II, III   8 3000 − 2350
Akkadian, Ur, Neo-Sumerian   9 2350 − 2000
Isin Larsa, Old Babylonian 10 2000 − 1600
Kassite, Old Aassyrian 11 1600 − 911  
Neo-Assyrian 12 911 − 612
Neo-Babylonean 13 625 − 539
Achaemenid 14 539 − 331
Seleucid 15 312 − 248
'Late Historic' Parthian 16 248 BC − 226 AD
Sassanian 17 226 − 636
Islamic 18 636 −       
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