Syria,Halaf culture,a view to the great neolithic village of tell sabi abyad ,from levels I,II,IIi,IV a 6.000 millennium b.c. cemetery,village,houses ,clay seals,potery,domestication of animals,and also a bronze age level ,Tell Sabi Abyad lies about 30 km south of the Syrian-Turkish border, in the gently undu-lating plain of the river Balikh, a perennial tributary of the Euphrates . The group of mounds is locally known as KhirbetSabi Abyad or “Ruin of the White Boy”.While Tell Sabi Abyad I may have covered about 5 ha, the other mounds were all much smaller, between roughly 0.5 and 1 ha. Signi ficantly, Tell Sabi Abyad I itself is not a single,coherent site but comprises several low and contiguous mounds, each with its own historyof habitation, which have partly merged in the course of time. Settlement started at thetwo western mounds in the late eighth millennium, while occupation on the two easternmounds probably did not begin until the end of the seventh millennium, around 6200 BC. Tell Sabi Abyad has been the focus of extensive annual excavations since 1986, with theresearch taking place under the auspices of Leiden University, The Netherlands, under the direction of the author
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