Talk:Uruk period

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Uruk expansion

"Uruk migrants settled in the South, and later in the North Caucasus.[6] The sites in this general area include Habuba Kabira in Syria, and Arslantepe in Turkey." - Either the grammar or the content cannot be true, because the given locations are south of the Caucasus. HJJHolm (talk) 07:48, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Chronology

I tried to improve the structure of the article by revising the headings somewhat. There are many proposals and chronological disputes.

The article still needs some more revision and simplification because there are still some repetitions and some of the text is out of chronological order. But it's a big job to put everything in order. Y-barton (talk) 04:23, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to say that job one would be to delete a lot of fluff from the article. Like I could delete the entire first paragraph in the Lower Mesopotamia section and have zero impact on the article. Basically, the original German wiki article this article was cribbed from read like something poached from the 1911 encyclopedia. :-) Anyway, that's what I think, rm maybe 20% of the article and then fix what is left.Ploversegg (talk) 00:18, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sites

I have slowly added articles for some of the notable Uruk sites. In this I do not include those with a few scraps of Uruk shards etc, which would probably include half the sites in the region. A few I did not do:

Hassek Höyük - this site is definitely Uruk, has been fully excavated and published. The problem is that essentially all that publishing is in German. My schoolboy German is not up to that task. It would be cool if someone could clean this up.
Tell Dlehim is said to be a Uruk site but it hasn't really been excavated and I see nothing there to support it, yet.
Kani Shaie - not quite enough stuff to build an article but the final report [1] is in progress and I have some hopes for it.
Tell al-Hayyad, Tell Rubeidheh, Tepe Qabrestan, Abu Fanduweh, Tepe Musiyan, Tell Humeida, Tell er-Ramadi, and Tepecik have been too thinly published to build an article on.

EDIT - Noticed that excavation had resumed at Kani Shaie so I ran up a starter article for it.

Ploversegg (talk) 00:14, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]