I need information about the Samarrans. They were an "Empire" (Put in quotes because I am unsure as to how big they were) That occupied space to the right of the Euphrates River, and above the Ubaid Empire in 6200 BCE-5700 BCE. I have spent HOURS looking for any info about them. The only things it states online is that they traded with Ubaids. That's really it- I found out about them through a book on the Babylonian Empire, and I wanted all the information that I could on them. I couldn't find any books on them, information online thinks that I am referring to the Sumerians, or it segues into talking about the Ubaids over and over. There is also another area North of the Samarrans called the "Hassuna." Or on some maps the "Hassana" But I think the latter is just a typo- They are the same case, but from 6000 BCE- 5300 BCE. Anything helps! Thanks! : )
Your use of the word empire may be what's giving you trouble here (you also don't want to look up Samaria, a place of great historical significance that's completely unrelated). You're looking for the Samarra culture. These are prehistorical cultures predating the first writing by thousands of years so it's really more of a subject for archaeology and anthropology, not history. "Cultures" in an archaeological context means a group of people who had things like a common style of pottery, similar methods of producing goods, similar burial practices, stuff like that. This wasn't some organized empire -they likely didn't have anything like what we'd call kings, weren't urbanized or centralized at all, or anything like that. They just shared enough traits that they can be described as a common culture.
If you're looking for chronicles of kings and empires you're several thousand years too early.
Edit: any broad history of the ancient near east will discuss the Uruk period, beginning around 4000 BC, which leads directly into writing and the relatively massive urbanization in places like Uruk. Sometimes the Ubaid period is also discussed as the predecessors to the Uruk period. You can see the roots of the future urbanization and many of what would become the cities of the near east actually originated in that period meaning ubaid material gets found beneath the more well known ruins. The other cultures that were earlier and/or don't lead so directly into the uruk period don't get nearly as much popular attention.