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Excavations at Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria

Tell Sabi Abyad is a major Late Neolithic settlement mound in Northern Syria, belonging to the seventh and early sixth millennium bc. This book presents the results of large-scale fieldwork conducted at the site between 1994 and 1999, under the auspices of the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University.

Author

Peter Akkermans, Merel Brüning, Harmen Huigens,Olivier Nieuwenhuyse

Date

01 January 2014

Tell Sabi Abyad is a major Late Neolithic settlement mound in Northern Syria, belonging to the seventh and early sixth millennium BC, excavated under the direction of Peter Akkermans. This book presents the results of large-scale fieldwork conducted at the site between 1994 and 1999, under the auspices of the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University. For six successive field campaigns, the relatively low and gently sloping southeastern part of Tell Sabi Abyad – termed Operation I – was the focus of broad horizontal excavation and a diverse, interdisciplinary series of investigations, aimed at the exploration of the sequence of local Late Neolithic (or Pottery Neolithic) villages dating from around 6200-5850 BC.

Because of the large-scale investigation at Tell Sabi Abyad, we are much better informed on the local de-velopment of culture and society in the Late Neolithic – an era which received little scholarly attention, if not sheer neglect, for a very long time but which has rapidly gained recognition in the past two decades.

This monograph takes the reader through an account of the excavation and an analysis of the material re- mains from the 1994 to 1999 field campaigns at Tell Sabi Abyad. The book provides reports on the stratigraphy, architecture, material culture, plant remains, human skeletal remains, and other finds from the various phases of Neolithic settlement at the site.

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