Habuba Kabira

Habuba Kabira (al-Ḥabbūbah al-Qabīrah, also Hubaba Kabire and Habuba Kebira) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in modern Syria founded during the Uruk period in the late 4th millennium BC. It is on the west bank of the Euphrates River in Aleppo Governorate. The site was excavated as part of a rescue archaeology effort preceding the construction of the Tabqa Dam; it is now mostly underwater. Habuba Kabira was about 1,300 km (810 mi) from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk, 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Tell Halawa, 10 km (6.2 mi) south of Mumbaqat, and 8 km (5.0 mi) upstream from Jebel Aruda. The Habuba Kabira complex consists of two sites;

Habuba Kabira South (also Habuba Kabira Süd), a protoliterate flat site Lower Town with the adjacent acropolis of Tell Qanas (Tall Qannāṣ, also Tell Kannas), the Upper Town. It was founded in the Late Uruk period and was occupied for around 120 years before being abandoned. Habuba Kabira North, a high mound which was founded in the Uruk period and then occupied through the following Early Bronze and Middle Bronze Ages before being abandoned. Habuba Kabira North and Tell Kannas showed indications of some earlier use in the form of protoliterate clay tokens dating to the 7th through 4th millennium BC.

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