Chronological Framework

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Byzantine period
Ch - Chalcolithic
Cr - Crusader period
EB - Early Bronze Age
EM - Early Muslim period (Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid periods)
EP - Epipalaeolithic
Geological Time
He - Hellenistic period
IA - Iron Age
IB - Intermediate Bronze Age (also called "Early Bronze IV" and "Middle Bronze I")
LB - Late Bronze Age
Ma - Mamluk period
MB - Middle Bronze Age
Ne - Neolithic
Ot - Ottoman period
Paleolithic
Pe - Persian period (Achaemenid Empire)
Ro - Roman period