Tell Kashashok

Tell Kashashok (أخبر كاشاشوك) is an archaeological site in the Khabur River Valley, of Northern Syria.

The site is dated by pottery finds to the latter neolithic era, and early Dynastic era.
 
The site was excavated by the Directorate General of Antiquities of Syria. However, the site has only received preliminary archaeological survey work and given the ongoing conflict of Syrian Civil War, excavations for the foreseeable future are unlikely.

The archaeology at Tell Kashashok shows levels from the early Dynastic era including a destruction layer, and an early adoption of cuneiform. It may have been known in antiquity as Kiš.

Litrature
"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.  ,   p.  45-55.

References 

Category:Neolithic sites

Category:Former populated places in Syria

Category:Neolithic
Category:Neolithic sites
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Category:Upper Mesopotamia
Category:Archaeological sites in Syria
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Category: Archaeological sites in Syria