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<< Text Pages >> Tell Aswad - Ancient Village or Settlement in Syria

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Multi-periodSite Name: Tell Aswad Alternative Name: Su-uk-su, Shuksa, Tell Sukas
Country: Syria Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Damascus  Nearest Village: Jdeidet el Khâss
Latitude: 33.404333N  Longitude: 36.550201E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Ancient Settlement in Syria

Early Pre Pottery Neolithic settlement, from about 7800 BCE, about 2.3 km east of Damascus Airport. The remains are within a 250 metre diameter mound. One of the first locations where agriculture was attempted.
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9,500-year-old decorated skulls found in Syria by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007
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Archaeologists said Sunday they had uncovered decorated human skulls dating back as long as 9,500 years ago from a burial site near the Syrian capital Damascus.

“The human skulls date back between 9,500 and 9,000 years ago, (on which) lifelike faces were modelled with clay earth ... then coloured to accentuate the features,” said Danielle Stordeur, head of the joint French-Syrian archaeological mission behind the discovery.

Located at a burial site near a prehistoric village, the five skulls were found earlier this month in a pit resting against one another, underneath the remains of an infant, said Stordeur.

The French archaeologist described as “extraordinary” the find at the Neolithic site of Tell Aswad, at Jaidet Al Khass village, 35 kilometres (22 miles) from Damascus.

The discovery was not the first of its kind in the Middle East, but “the realism of two of these skulls is striking,” stressed Stordeur, in charge of the excavation along with Bassam Jamous, the chief of antiquities of Syria’s National Museum.

“They surprise by the regularity and the smoothness of their features,” Stordeur said of the skulls.



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