Abu Hureyra - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria
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Site Name: Abu Hureyra Alternative Name: Tell Abu HureyraCountry: Syria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Aleppo Nearest Village: Under Lake Nasser
Latitude: 35.907717N Longitude: 38.332595E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria
Tell Abu Hureyra was an ancient settlement in northern Syria on a plateau near a south bank of the Euphrates River, presently beneath Lake Assad in northern Syria to the east of Aleppo. It is said to show the earliest known evidence of agriculture anywhere with the cultivation of rye from around 11,050 BCE. An Epipalaeolithic settlement with only a couple of hundred people was established around 11,500 BCE, probably by the Natufian culture. It consisted of a small number of round huts. After a period of abandoment, a much larger Neolithic settlement was established with mud-brick houses on a large mound from the remains of old houses. Pottery was used from around 6000 BCE and weaving some time before that. The village was abandoned completely around 5900 BCE. The site was excavated in 1972 and 1973 in a rescue excavations before it was flooded under Lake Assad.
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