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Places tagged “hassuna” in Iraq matching “Nineveh Governorate, Northern Iraq” · Mysteria

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Places tagged “hassuna” in Iraq matching “Nineveh Governorate, Northern Iraq”

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell

Tell Hassuna

Neolithic Hassuna-Samarra (c.6000–5600 BCE) · Hassuna

Type site 1939–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd that defined the Hassuna painted pottery tradition of northern Iraq.

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid

Tell Hassuna — Type Site of Hassuna Culture

Proto-Hassuna, Hassuna, Samarran (6500–5500 BCE) · Hassuna culture

Between two wadis south-west of Mosul, this 1943–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd and Fuad Saffar defined the Hassuna culture — earliest ceramic Neolithic in northern Iraq — through 15 building levels.