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<< Text Pages >> Tel al-Abar 3 - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria

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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel al-Abar 3
Country: Syria
NOTE: This site is 2.781 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aleppo  Nearest Village: Aleppo
Latitude: 36.214000N  Longitude: 37.147000E
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Tel al-Abar 3 is a site on the left bank of the Euphrates River near Aleppo in northern Syria and dates back to the 10th millennium BC

Excavations at Tel al-Abar 3 reveal two different areas that include three communal buildings and dozens of circular houses built from limestone and paved with pebbles from the river. Finds include flint tools such as blades, knives, sickles, arrow tips and hatchets, and tools used for leatherwork and crafting straw mats, stone mills, pestles, pot sherds, animal bones and horns. The site illustrates the emerging specialisation in ancient times having various buildings serving farming, hunting and the production of stone impliments.

More at: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004205583/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeological-sites-mark-location-of-farming-in-syria-from-10th-millennium-bc.html
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Archaeological Findings from the 10th Millennium B.C. Unearthed at Tal al-Abar by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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Carved panels and archeological findings dating back to the beginning of the agricultural revolution in the 10th Millennium B.C. were unearthed at Tel al-Abar 3 site, left bank of the Euphrates River.

According to the head of the national archeological mission working at the site Thayer Yerta, the panels are made from chloritis (green precious stone) with different engravings and figures.

He added that "one of these panels portrayed an eagle with wings spread wide and snake-form sculptures on the two sides. Another panel has an abstract sculpture of three eagle sculptures spreading their wings behind which the sun appears."

A building with decorated terrace was also uncovered inside a hole at a depth of 130 cm and a diameter of 750 cm.

The findings help shed light on two major practices of ancient people which are farming and fishing. They also provided us with a hint about the way of life those people used to have as well as their social and economic life.

A chlorite vessel of a bull was among the findings as well as a vessel for a man without head in squat position and hands spread wide holding a spear in his right hand.

A stone panel of two parts was discovered. There is a spike sculpture surrounded by two hands on the upper part while the lower contains a sculpture for a bull head with a snake beside it.

Yerta said that the sculptures on the panel indicate the first agricultural activity for inhabitants lived on the banks of Euphrates River.

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/11/10/318470.htm

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Re: Tel al-Abar 3 by DrewParsons on Sunday, 23 May 2010
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Syria: Archaeological Sites Mark Location of Farming from 10th Millennium BC. News item resourced by coldrum.

Excavations began in the various archaeological sites that once housed farming communities, including Tel al-Abar 3 sites on the left bank of the Euphrates River (northern Syria) which dates back to the 10th millennium BC.

Assistant Director of the Syrian Department of Archaeology and Museums Thaer Yerte said excavations at the site revealed information about the communities that settled on the banks of the Euphrates, uncovering two different areas that include three communal buildings and dozens of circular houses built from limestone and paved with pebbles from the river.

The structures contained various flint tools such as blades, knives, sickles, arrow tips and hatchets, tools used for leatherwork and crafting straw mats, stone mills and pestles, pottery fragments and animal bones and horns, Yerte added.

He pointed out that the first communal building in the site contains a circular hole in the ground 15 meters deep with a diameter of 12 meters, with a clay terrace inside the building containing limestone blocks decorated with engravings of animals, geometrical shapes and the sun. The floor is made of clay tiles painted with lime, while the ceiling is supported by wooden pillars.

The second communal building is circular with a diameter of 7 meters, consisting of five chambers with a square stone support pillar in its center. It contained flint and stone tools, stone pottery, a flint figurine representing a mother goddess, a clay figurine representing a half-human half-animal creature, and ox horns.

The findings indicate that the two communal buildings had a social and ritualistic role, Yerte noted.

He also said that site plays an important role in answering questions regarding the emergence of farming in ancient times, as it clearly shows the characteristics of an organized village with a multitude of structures serving various purposes where people practiced farming, hunting and the manufacture of flint and stone tools.

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004205583/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeological-sites-mark-location-of-farming-in-syria-from-10th-millennium-bc.html

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Re: Tel al-Abar 3 by DrewParsons on Sunday, 23 May 2010
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I can't locate on a map the exact location of Tel al-Abar. Can anyone help please?
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