Early Third Millennium BC Settlement in the Western Khabur Basin. Preliminary Results of the Pottery Analysis from the Khabur Basin Project Surveys

The paper presents new information about the distribution of pottery dated to the first half of the third millennium BC, Ninevite 5 pottery in particular, in the Upper Khabur region. It is the result of a preliminary study of pottery deriving from Khabur Basin Project surveys performed by Yale University under the direction of Prof. Frank Hole in the 1980s and 1990s. The area under consideration encompasses the surroundings of the Jebel Abd al-Aziz mountains west of the Khabur river, and sites located in the north-eastern part of Upper Khabur region. The main goal of this presentation is to add data on Early Jezireh 0–3 periods settlement in areas located far from the Khabur river, as well as supplement the existing data on the settlement of the Khabur Basin.