Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World

Narrower term/s

• Anatolian (culture or style)[+]
  • Hittite (culture or style) [+]
    • Old Hittite Kingdom
    • Hittite Empire
    • Neo-Hittite
    • Middle Hittite Kingdom
  • Assyrian Colony period
  • Lycian
  • Lydian
  • Phrygian [+]
    • Early Phrygian
  • Urartian
  • Syro-Hittite
  • Anatolian Paleolithic [+]
    • Kemerian
    • Belbasi
    • Beldibi
  • Anatolian pottery styles [+]
    • black-on-red
    • brown-slipped (pottery style)
    • brown-on-cream
    • Cappadocian (pottery style)
    • Çatal West
    • gritty buff (Anatolian pottery style)
    • Intermediate (pottery style)
    • Knobbed (pottery style)
    • Metallic (Anatolian pottery style)
    • Multiple-Brush Painted
    • red-slipped (pottery style)
    • red-on-cream
    • white-on-red (Anatolian pottery style)
    • white-slipped red
  • Cappadocian (culture or style)
  • Cilician
  • Anatolian Islamic
  • Pergamene (culture or style)
  • Pontian
  • Bithynian
  • Anatolian sculpture styles [+]
    • Kilia type
  • Troy (culture and period) [+]
    • Troy I
    • Troy II
    • Troy III
    • Troy IV
    • Troy V
    • Troy VI
    • Troy VII
    • Troy VIII
    • Troy IX
  • Mengujekid
  • Luwian (culture or style)
• Arabian (culture)[+]
  • Nabatean
  • Qatabanian
  • Sabaean
  • Umm an-Nar (Arabian culture or period)
  • Dilmun [+]
    • Early Dilmun
    • Middle Dilmun
    • Late Dilmun
  • Himyarite
  • Minaean
  • Hadramawt
• Levantine (culture or style)[+]
  • Syrian (historical) [+]
    • Syro-Phoenician [NP]
    • Syrian Islamic [NP]
  • Canaanite (culture or style)
  • Philistine
  • Phoenician (culture or style) [+]
    • Syro-Phoenician
    • Punic (Carthaginian, culture or style)
  • Levantine periods [+]
    • Levantine Paleolithic periods [+]
      • Jabrudian
      • Kebaran
      • Natufian
      • Levanto-Aurignacian
    • Levantine Neolithic periods [+]
      • Pre-pottery Neolithic A
      • Pre-pottery Neolithic B
      • Ghassulian
      • Proto-Ghassulian
      • Pottery Neolithic [+]
  • Levantine pottery styles [+]
    • Amuq B
    • basket (pottery style)
    • Brittle Painted (pottery style)
    • Dark-faced Burnished
    • Khirbet Kerak
    • pattern-burnished
    • red-pattern burnished
    • Red Wash (pottery style)
    • red-washed buff
    • Syrian gray-black
    • White (pottery style)
  • Palestinian
  • Galilean
  • Israelite (ancient)
  • Judaean
  • Judahite
  • Sea Peoples
  • Herodian (period and style)
  • Ghassanid
  • Omride
• Mesopotamian (culture or style)[+]
  • Akkadian (culture or style)
  • Assyrian [+]
    • Old Assyrian
    • Middle Assyrian
    • Late Assyrian [+]
      • Sargonid (Late Assyrian)
  • Isin-Larsa
  • Sumerian (culture or style)
  • Sumero-Akkadian
  • Early Dynastic (Mesopotamian) [+]
    • Protoimperial
    • Early Dynastic I
    • Early Dynastic II
    • Early Dynastic III
  • Neo-Sumerian [+]
    • Third Dynasty of Ur
  • Old Babylonian [+]
    • First Dynasty of Babylon
  • Neo-Babylonian
  • Kassite
  • Mitannian (culture or style)
  • Assyro-Babylonian
  • Mesopotamian glyptic styles [+]
    • Brocade Style
  • prehistoric Mesopotamian periods [+]
    • prehistoric Northern Mesopotamian periods [+]
      • Hassuna
      • Samarra (culture or period)
      • Halaf
      • Jarmo
      • Gawra period (Migration culture or period)
    • prehistoric Southern Mesopotamian periods [+]
      • Ubaid [+]
      • Protoliterate [+]
  • Post-Akkadian
  • Mari Age
  • Babylonian
  • Mesopotamian pottery styles [+]
    • Ninevite 5
    • Nuzi
    • Khabur
    • Metallic (Mesopotamian pottery style)
    • black burnished (Mesopotamian pottery style)
    • Black-on-Buff
    • gray burnished (Mesopotamian pottery style)
    • Hassuna archaic
    • Scarlet (pottery style)
    • Hassuna standard
  • Amorite (culture or style)
• Persian (culture)[+]
  • Persian periods (style) [+]
    • Elamite [+]
      • Middle Elamite
      • Proto-Elamite
      • Old Elamite
    • Achaemenid
    • Seleucid
    • Parthian
    • Sassanian
    • Zagros Mountain prehistoric periods [+]
      • Baradostian
      • Zarzian
      • Bus Mordeh
      • Ali Kosh
      • Muhammed Jafar
      • Khazineh
      • Mehmeh
      • Bayat
      • Zawi Chemi Shanidar
      • Karim Shaharian
    • Soft Ware Horizon
    • Akkoyunlu [NP] [+]
      • Qarā Yawlāq Arslan
      • Hamza
      • Ya'qūb
      • Baysonqur
      • Rüstem
      • Murad
      • Muhammad Mirza
    • Jalayrid
    • Ziyarid
  • Persian styles [+]
    • Animal Style (Persian style)
    • Scythian
    • Median (Persian style)
    • Persian pottery styles [+]
      • Choga Mami Transitional
      • Archaic (Persian pottery style)
      • Buff (pottery style)
      • early red
      • Ismailabad
      • Mehmeh Red-on-Red
      • Red Burnished (pottery style)
      • Sarab (pottery style)
      • Sialk
      • Standard Painted
    • Persian textile styles after the Mongols [NP] [+]
      • Central Persian textile styles after the Mongols [+]
      • Northeast Persian textile styles after the Mongols [+]
      • South Persian textile styles after the Mongols [+]
      • West Persian textile styles after the Mongols [+]
    • Lur (general style and culture) [+]
      • Lori (carpet style) [NP]
    • Greco-Persian
• Cypriote[+]
  • Cypriote periods [+]
    • Early Cypriote
    • Philia stage
    • Middle Cypriote
    • Late Cypriote
  • Cypriote styles [+]
    • Cypro-Phoenician
    • Cypriote pottery styles [+]
      • Base Ring (pottery style)
      • Black Lustrous (pottery style)
      • Black-slip-and-combed
      • Red-on-white
      • Red Lustrous (pottery style)
      • Red-on-black
      • Red Polished (Cypriote pottery style)
      • White Painted (pottery style)
      • White Slip (pottery style)
    • Cypro-Archaic
    • Cypro-Classical
    • Cypro-Geometric
• Armenian (ancient culture or style)
• Ancient Syrian[+]
  • Aramaean (style or culture)
• Arabic (style)
• Semitic (culture)
• Ancient Middle Eastern[+]
  • Old Testament (culture or period)
  • Amorite (culture or style) [NP]
• Neanderthal (culture) [NP]
• Hurrian (culture or style)
• Phocaean
• Ancient Hebrew (culture or style)
• Alexandrian (period and culture)
• Iberian (Trancaucasian, culture and style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the culture that developed in antiquity in the vast geographical area extending from Turkey in the west to Iran in the East.