Tell Kashkashok

Tell Kashashok (أخبر كاشكاشوك) is an archaeological site in the Khabur River Valley,[3] of Northern Syria.[4] The site is dated by pottery finds to the latter neolithic era,[5] and early Dynastic era.[6] The site was excavated by the Directorate General of Antiquities of Syria in 1987 and 1988.[7][8] The Early Dynastic era includes a destruction layer,[8] and an early adoption of cuneiform. It may have been known in antiquity as Kiš.[8] A few clay numerical tablets from the EB III were found.[9]

Tell Kashkashok
أخبر كاشكاشوك
Tell Kashkashok is located in Syria
Tell Kashkashok
Shown within Syria
Tell Kashkashok is located in Near East
Tell Kashkashok
Tell Kashkashok (Near East)
Alternative nameTell Kashkashuk
LocationAl-Hasakah Governorate, Syria
RegionUpper Mesopotamia
Coordinates36°38′20″N 40°38′21″E
Typearchaeological site, cluster
Length250 metre (Kashkashok III)
Width220 metre (Kashkashok III)
Diameter50 metre (Kashkashok I)
Height2 metre (Kashkashok I), 20 metre (Kashkashok III)
History
PeriodsHalaf culture (Kashkashok I)
Site notes
Excavation dates1986–1991;[1] 1987–1990[2]
ArchaeologistsAntoine Suleiman (Kashkashok III, Kashkashok I)

References
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  2. Yoshihiro Nishiaki (2018). "The Late Halafian Lithic Industry of Tell Kashkashok I,the Upper Khabur, Syria". Orient: Journal of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. 53: 1–21. Wikidata Q110235842.
  3. Matsutani, Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture (University of Tokyo 1987) vol 109.
  4. Buccellati, Giorgio. "The Floodwaters of Urkesh and the Structural Coherence of the Urkesh Temple Complex" (PDF). Urkesh. Retrieved 11 September 2020..
  5. Nishiaki, Yoshihiro. "Preliminary Results of the Prehistoric Survey in the Khabur Basin, Syria: 1990-91 Seasons". Paléorient. 18, no. 1 (1992): 97–102 – via JSTOR.
  6. Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2003). The Invention of Cuneiform : Writing in Sumer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780801873898. OCLC 51041422.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. MATSUTANI, Toshio. "Excavation at Tell Kashkashok II, 1987." Tōyō bunka kenkyūsho kiyō 109 (1989): 1-33
  8. Frayne, Douglas (2008). Pre-Sargonic Period - 2700-2350 BC. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-9047-9. OCLC 1100706906.
  9. Philippe Quenet. “The Diffusion of the Cuneiform Writing System in Northern Mesopotamia: The Earliest Archaeological Evidence.” Iraq, vol. 67, no. 2, 2005, pp. 31–40

Further reading
  • "Tell Abu Hğaira (Syrian dig)", Syria 72, 1995, p. 183-190 (= CAAS II); "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", Mr. Al-Maqdissi, M. Abdul Karim, A. Al-Azm & M. Al-Khoury (ed.), The Syrian Jezireh. Cultural Heritage and Interrelations. Proceedings of the International Held Conference at Deir ez-Zor (22nd-25th April, 1996), Damascus, 2002, p. 45-55 (= DAS I), in Arabic.
  • Tall Kash-Kashok, H. Weiss, Ed., The Origins of North Mesopotamian Civilization: Ninevite Chronology, Economy, Society (Yale Symposium, 1988), Yale, 1988; AT. Suleyman & A. Taraqji, "Tell Kashkashuk at the time of Halaf", S. Cluzan, E. Delpont & J. Mouliérac (dir.), Syria, memory and civilization, Paris, 1993, p. 48; "Tell Kashkashouk", Syria 72, 1995, p. 170-183 (= CAAS II); "The Temples at Tell Kashashok in the Third Millennium BC", op. cit. not. 3, p. 321–322; "The Temples of Tell Kashashok and Tell Abu Hujeira", ibid., pp. 45–55.
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