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Other Archaeological Sites / The Neolithic of the Levant (500 Page Book Online) McDonald Ancient Near East Book Auction Ad Infinitum Amuq Valley History and Archaeology Keywords = Amuq Valley / Plain of Antioch / Amik Ovasi
Major Excavated Sites: Tell Atchana / Tell Kurdu / Tell Judaidah / Excerpts and Definitions and Addendums:
ADDENDUM: Ancient Antioch (Antakya) was captured by the Turks in 1516 and it remained a part of the Ottoman Empire until shortly after World War I when it was conveyed to Syria under a French mandate. On September 2nd 1938 the French turned the Alexandretta district of the Syrian Republic into the autonomous Republic of Hatay. It was thereafter handed to Turkey on June 23rd 1939 ..... (See *) The new political boundaries left 24 of the 178 sites originally surveyed by Braidwood (See BIB II Below) in Syria either up the Afrin River Valley or along the eastern and southern flanks of the plain. These 24 sites could not be revisited by the AVRP team. During the 1995-1998 seasons 180 sites - 126 sites recorded by the Braidwood survey and 54 new ones - were visited ..... The fertile Amuq Valley receives plentiful rainfall in the range of 500-700 milimetres per annum and is sufficient for dry farming (without irrigation) in all but the driest years ..... GEOARCHAEOLOGY: Overview of the Sedimentary Sequences ..... While the plain seems to have been essentially dry for a significant part of the Holocene (the present geologic age) it can be assumed that it was also watered by numerous springs that issued from many places within the surrounding limestone hills. Such springs contributed in turn to patches of marsh and even small lakes which would have produced a rich mosaic of wet and dry environments at all times throughout the Holocene. Consequently the appearance of the major [Amik Gölü] Lake in the Roman/Islamic period or slightly earlier represents a shift in terms of degree of development. By this time larger areas of the plain were uncultivable and would have been usable only for fishing - shellfish gathering - hunting or seasonal wet pasture ..... There are a total of 22 phases (Amuq A-V) in all which together span most of the Holocene through the Islamic Period: Neolithic (Amuq A-B) / Chalcolithic (Amuq C-F) / Bronze Age (Amuq G-M) / Iron Age (Amuq N-O) / Hellenistic (Amuq P-Q) / Roman (Amuq R) ... The Amuq sequence has become a standard reference point for chronologies and material culture in the neighboring regions of Anatolia - Syro-Palestine - and northern Mesopotamia ..... BIBLIOGRAPHY
(I) THE AMUQ VALLEY REGIONAL PROJECTS
(II) Mounds in the Plain of Antioch: An Archaeological Survey
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Excavations in the Plain of Antioch (Volume II):
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The Amuq Valley Regional Project 1995-1998 (AJA) "Amuq" is also in 35 Sections of The Neolithic of the Levant .....
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