Tell Kashkashok
Ubaid–Early Jezirah III (c.5000–2300 BCE)·Ubaid → Ninevite-5·🇸🇾 Hasaka Governorate, Jaghjagh mid-reach, Syria
About
About Tell Kashkashok
Trilogy Kashkashok I–III on Jaghjagh mid-reach: Ubaid hut with Samarra pre-contact, Late Chalcolithic double-temple mound, and ED II dense granaries with Halaf-to-Ninevite transition; Matsutani & Nishiaki surveys. Tell Kashkashok — Early Jezirah Hamlet Cluster on the Jaghjagh context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTell Kashkashok — Early Jezirah Hamlet Cluster on the Jaghjagh
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Ubaid–Early Jezirah III (c.5000–2300 BCE)
- Period
- Ubaid–Early Jezirah III (c.5000–2300 BCE)
- Culture
- Ubaid → Ninevite-5
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Hamlet chain documenting irrigation uptake
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Ubaid–Early Jezirah III
Hamlet chain documenting irrigation uptake
On the ground
Structures & features
36.6000° N · 41.0000° E · 450 m · 2 mapped features
Late Chalcolithic Double Temple
templeTwin shrine platform with eye-idol deposit
36.6010° N · 41.0010° EED II Granary Yard
storageSil pit-yard with Halaf-to-Ninevite transition sherds
36.5990° N · 40.9990° E