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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Ghānim al ‘Alī
  • geo:35.778484,39.420223
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3300 / -2000

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=31750

Annotations

Tell Ghanem al-Ali is a small Early Bronze Age settlements in the Jazira region of  Syria, situated on the right bank of the Euphrates River.  The site was occupied  from 3100–2900 cal BC at the oldest level to 2250–2050 cal BC at the youngest level.  The agricultural occupation of its inhabitants depended on the irrigation system to support farming crops and keeping of domestic animals. The settlement was surrounded with mud brick walls.

Sources:

  1.  T. Nakamura, at all., Early Bronze Age Strata at Tell Ghanem al-Ali along the Middle Euphrates in Syria: A Preliminary Report of 14C Dating Results, in: UAiR Radiocarbon, Vol 52, No 2 (2010), pp. 382-392 - https://www.academia.edu/1903638
  2. Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Dating simple flakes: Early Bronze Age flake production technology on the Middle Euphrates Steppe, Syria, Journal of Lithic Studies (2014) vol.1, nr. 1, pp.197-212 - http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/viewFile/781/1100
  3. Lubna Omar, Animal Economy in the Middle Euphrates Valley: Faunal Analysis at the site of Tell Ghanem al-Ali (Syria)', Al-Rafidan, Vol.XXXI 2010, pp. 1-14 - https://www.academia.edu/990648
  4. Nishiaki, and Masashi Abe, Archaeological survey around Tell Ghanem Al-Ali (III). Al-Rafidan XXXI 2010, pp. 125-128 - https://www.academia.edu/4644699
  5. Preliminary reports of the Syria-Japan archaeological joint research in the region of Ar-Raqqa, Syria, 2007, Al-Rafidan XXIX 2008, pp. 117- 190 -  http://homepage.kokushikan.ac.jp/kaonuma/nomad/PDF/29-06%20Ohnuma.pdf

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