Tell Mašnaqa
Coordinates: 36 ° 17 ′ 18.3 ″ N , 40 ° 47 ′ 40.7 ″ E
Tell Mašnaqa or Tell Maschnaka ( Arabic تل مشنقة Tal Maschnaqa , DMG Tall Mašnaqa ) is a prehistoric site in the Chabur region . It is located about 30 km from al-Hasakah in present-day Syria . The site was excavated from 1990 by a Danish and a French team of archaeologists, mainly finds from the Obed and Uruk periods came to light. The Tell wasfloodedafter the al-Hasakah dam was built . It had an area of about 4 hectares and a height of 4 to 11 meters above the surrounding plain.
literature
- Peter MMG Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz: The Archeology of Syria. From complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies. (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-79230-4 , p. 167 f.
- Ingolf Thuesen: Tell Mashnaqa. In: Syrian-European Archeology Exhibition. Institut Français d'Études Arabes de Damas, Damascus 1996, ISBN 2-901315-30-5 , pp. 47-54.
- Dominique Beyer: Evolution de l'espace bâti sur un site de la vallée du Khabur au IVe millénaire: les fouilles françaises de Mashnaqa. In: Espace naturel, espace habité en Syrie du Nord (10e - 2e millénaires av. J.-C.). = Natural Space, inhabited Space in Northern Syria (10th - 2nd millennium BC) (= The Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies. Bulletin. 33, 1998 = Collection travaux de la Maison de l'Orient. Vol. 28). Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen et al., Lyon 1998, ISBN 2-903264-56-2 , pp. 139-148, ( digitized version ).