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Demirköy Höyük is a PPNA site located in the Upper Tigris basin. It sits within the same broader cultural zone as Hallan Çemi, Körtik Tepe, & early Upper Tigris PPNA settlements
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> In the modern day Batman River tributary system, southeastern Turkey. There is an important pre pottery neolithic site called Demirköy Höyük. It represents a small sedentary settlement with no clear evidence for intensive cereal farming yet, but with strong…
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Protected: Habula
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Bouqras was a large Euphrates‑valley PPNB tell with evidence for early farming (wheat/barley, pulses), sheep/goat herding, long‑distance exchange (obsidian), & well organized rectangular mudbrick houses
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell Bouqras compares with other northern Levant PPNB sites like Dja’de, Mureybet, and Abu HureyraIt is on the right bank of the Euphrates, 35 km SE of Deir ez‑Zor;Its economy was of rain‑fed cereals (emmer, einkorn, barley), pulses; sheep/goat…
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Tell Kosak Shamali is a multi‑period upper Euphrates tell with substantial PPNB & later Ubaid–Chalcolithic occupations
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Its not the origin of animal domestication but shows early farming economies and, importantly, large-scale pottery workshops in later phases. In modern day nw Syria, Tell Kosak Shamali was a well known PPNB site. Tell Kosak Shamali was a…
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With early PPNB occupations, Tell Ain el‑Kerkh is now located in the NW of modern day Syria
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell Ain el-Kerkh is in the Rouj Basin, 20 km SW of Idlib. It was part of a large tell complex on river/terrace systems of NW Syria The site shows early village farming economies, distinctive EPPNB lithic technology (naviform…
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Dja’de el‑Mughara was a major Late PPNA–Early PPNB village, on the Middle Euphrates. It is notable for one of the oldest known wall‑paintings, intensive wild‑cereal use & early funerary specialization
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> On the left (east) bank of the Middle Euphrates; Dja’de sits immediately adjacent to the river terraceThough proximity varies by site, many norther Levantine PPNA sites occupy river terraces and floodplains. Some of the ones include Mureybet, Jerf el‑Ahmar…
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Gritille Höyük was a fully developed PPNB farming village in the Upper Euphrates. It had planned rectangular architecture, domesticated wheat & barley agriculture, as well as sheep/goat herding
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> A fully developed PPNB farming village in the Upper Euphrates with rectangular planned architecture, domesticated wheat and barley agriculture, sheep/goat herding as the economic core. Despite no obvious signs of equus, or horse usage, there was hunting of wild…
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Cafer Höyük was a key PPNB farming village in the Central Fertile Crescent & Upper Euphrates. In the modern day south eastern region of Turkiye
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Cafer Höyük is a major Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site dating to around 9.5 and 8 thousand BCELocated in the Upper Euphrates basin (Malatya region). It is one of the classic sites that shows the fully developing Neolithic “farming village…
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