PreHistoric Habuba Kabira (Tell Qannas) in Syria
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The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange
in Early Mesopotamian Civilization

Guillermo Algaze (OI) [JSTOR] Current Anthropology
Volume 30 - No. 5 (Dec 1989) - Pages 571-608

Short-lived salvage operations have been undertaken at this site of the Assad Dam on the middle Euphrates [German excavations at Habuba Kabira (1971-76)] ......

... not only the material culture -- pottery, seals, sealings -- but also the individual residential units are indistinguishable from those of southern Mesopotamia and in particular at the site of Uruk, previously our major source for the fourth millennium. The identity of material culture, ideology, accounting practices, use of space and building techniques render inconceivable any interpretation other than that the settlement at Habuba were built and lived in by south Mesopotamians .....

Trade and Power in the Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC:
New Evidence from Northern Mesopotamia
Joan Oates 1993 World Archaeology
Volume 24 (3): Pages 403-422

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