Rethinking the Making of the Late Neolithic Pottery: an Example of Tell Arbid Abyad (Northeast Syria)
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia, Leiden, March 2009. Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities (PALMA) |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Proto-Halaf; Halaf period; pottery; Late Neolithic; Tell Arbid Abyad; Syria; |
| Description | Tell Arbid Abyad is the focus of a Czech archaeological project(2005-2011), which is associated with the Syrian-Polish Archaeological Expedition to Tell Arbid. The site, located in the upper Khabur basin 12 km east of Chagar Bazar in northeastern Syria, consists of a 2 m high mound that covers an area of 0.5 ha and dates to the Proto-Halaf to Halaf periods. This paper summarises the first results of investigations into the mineral, petrographic and chemical composition of the Late Neolithic pottery from Tell Arbid Abyad. The provenance of the examined pottery is also discussed. |
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