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THE TELL KURDU PROJECT |
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HISTORY
OF RESEARCH AT TELL KURDU THE
CURRENT PHASE OF EXCAVATIONS REPORTS and NEWSLETTERS ONLINE 1996-2000
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE UBAID LEVELS
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INVESTIGATIONS 1996-2000 OF THE UBAID SETTLEMENT (see Oriental Institute webpage) Tell
Kurdu, is also one of the primary Ubaid Period (fifth-millennium BC)
sites in the region. Ceramics and other artifacts from the site are
associated with Ubaid-related assemblages, indicating relationships to
Mesopotamia and the Tigris-Euphrates basin sites, to the east in Syria.
The Ubaid period represents the foreshadowing of the development of
complex state societies and urbanization in the Near East. The goal of
the 1996-2000 project was to document the transformation of
relationships from a prevailing pattern of strong local cultural
expressions at Tell Kurdu (and perhaps the rest of the Amuq Valley ) to
one with strong Ubaid relationships. The nature of these Mesopotamia- or
Syria-related cultures will be a central focus of our future
investigations. The
Ubaid period is a formative time on the road towards urbanism and state
societies, yet very little is known of the architecture relating to this
period, since at many major sites Ubaid levels are often buried deeply
beneath later levels. Renewed investigations at Tell Kurdu promise to
allow broad horizontal exposures to reveal entire architectural plans
for the Ubaid period since there are no later overlaying strata.
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