Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c10.37

c10.37

that we can give an approximate date in years for Jemdet Nasr – about 3000 B.C. – for it was followed by the period of the Early Dynasties: the period of the Flood which figures so largely in Sumerian and Hebrew tradition, and the days after the Flood when ‘kingship again descended from on high’. But, before treating the early historical periods of Mesopotamia in more detail, it will be convenient to turn to six main stratified sites in Persia and Turkestan and compare their sequence with that we have already established, from Hassuna to Jemdet Nasr.