Tell Kashkashok

Tell Kashashok (أخبر كاشكاشوك) is an archaeological site in the Khabur River Valley,[1] of Northern Syria.[2] The site is dated by pottery finds to the latter neolithic era,[3] and early Dynastic era.[4] The site was excavated by the Directorate General of Antiquities of Syria.[5] The Early Dynastic era includes a destruction layer,[5] and an early adoption of cuneiform. It may have been known in antiquity as Kiš.[5]

References
  1. Matsutani, Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (University of Tokyo 1987) vol 109.
  2. Buccellati, Giorgio. "The Floodwaters of Urkesh and the Structural Coherence of the Urkesh Temple Complex" (PDF). Urkesh. Retrieved 11 September 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link).
  3. Nishiaki, Yoshihiro. "Preliminary Results of the Prehistoric Survey in the Khabur Basin, Syria: 1990-91 Seasons". Paléorient. 18, no. 1 (1992): 97–102 – via JSTOR.
  4. Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2003). The Invention of Cuneiform : Writing in Sumer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780801873898. OCLC 51041422.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. Frayne, Douglas (2008). Pre-Sargonic Period - 2700-2350 BC. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-9047-9. OCLC 1100706906.

Further reading
  • "Tell Abu Hğaira (Syrian dig)", Syria 72, 1995, p. 183-190 (= CAAS II); "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", Mr. Al-Maqdissi, M. Abdul Karim, A. Al-Azm & M. Al-Khoury (ed.), The Syrian Jezireh. Cultural Heritage and Interrelations. Proceedings of the International Held Conference at Deir ez-Zor (22nd-25th April, 1996), Damascus, 2002, p. 45-55 (= DAS I), in Arabic.
  • Tall Kash-Kashok, H. Weiss, Ed., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization: Ninevite Chronology, Economy, Society (Yale Symposium, 1988), Yale, 1988; AT. Suleyman & A. Taraqji, "Tell Kashkashuk at the time of Halaf", S. Cluzan, E. Delpont & J. Mouliérac (dir.), Syria, memory and civilization, Paris, 1993, p. 48; "Tell Kashkashouk", Syria 72, 1995, p. 170-183 (= CAAS II); "The Temples at Tell Kashashok in the Third Millennium BC", op. cit. not. 3, p. 321–322; "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", ibid., pp. 45–55.

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