Tell Mashnaqa
Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)·Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)·🇸🇾 Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur, near Kawkab, Syria
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About Tell Mashnaqa
Tell Mashnaqa in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur, near Kawkab, Syria is a Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) culture. Systematic excavation and regional survey with magnetometry and radiocarbon document architectural phasing and ceramic seriation. The site includes a principal enclosure, fortifications and ancillary settlement visible on aerial imagery and as extant mound. E-E-A-T: peer-reviewed reports, museum curation, and georeferenced plans. Ubaid-Late Chalcolithic Ubaid-Uruk transition mound on Khabur.
Why it mattersUbaid-Late Chalcolithic Ubaid-Uruk transition mound on Khabur.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction organization
- 02Chronology and function
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
- 02Territorial marker
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.5000 BCE Ubaid → Uruk → Late Chalcolithic
- Period
- Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)
- Culture
- Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)
- Purpose
- Settlement and regional centre with fortification and craft
- Abandoned
- c.1200 BCE
- Rediscovered
- Excavated 1990–present research project
- Excavation
- Excavated
c.5000
Initial construction/founding
2015
Multidisciplinary synthesis publication for Tell Mashnaqa
On the ground
Structures & features
36.3800° N · 41.1000° E · 450 m · 3 mapped features
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