Archaeological Chronology

Period	Dating
Epi-Paleolithic (Late Natufian)	10500-8500 BC
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A	8500/8300-7500 BC
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	7500-6000 BC
Pottery Neolithic A (Yarmukian culture)	6000-5000 BC
Pottery Neolithic B	5000-4600 BC
Early Chalcolithic	4600-4200 BC
Middle Chalcolithic	4200-3800 BC
Late Chalcolithic	3800-3400 BC
Early Bronze Age I	3400-3000 BC
Early Bronze Age II	3000-2700 BC
Early Bronze Age III	2700-2300 BC
Early Bronze Age IV	2300-2000 BC
Middle Bronze Age I	2000-1800 BC
Middle Bronze Age II	1800-1650 BC
Middle Bronze Age III	1650-1550 BC
Late Bronze Age I	1550-1420 BC
Late Bronze Age II	1400-1200 BC
Iron Age I	1200-1000 BC
Iron Age IIA	1000-925 BC
Iron Age IIB	925-732 BC
Iron Age IIC	732-586 BC
Neo-Babylonian Period	586-535 BC
Persian Period	535-333 BC
Hellenistic Period	333-64 BC
Roman Period	64 BC-AD 324
Byzantine Period	324-636
Early Islamic Period	636-1000
Middle Islamic / Crusader Period	1000-1258
Late (Mamluk) Period Islamic to Ottoman                                             1516-1918 ^	1250-1516