Prehistoric Investigations of West Asia

我们的探险队发掘了一个早期农业定居点的遗址，名为Tell Kashkashok II，可追溯到Hassuna Ia时期（公元前6000年）。在叙利亚东北部Hassake区Khabur河流域。我们于1985年作了初步调查，并于1987年4月至9月（第一季）和1988年7月至12月（第二季）进行了两季的发掘。两季的发掘结果对研究早期农业社会的形成具有重要意义。因此，我们希望今后继续对哈布尔盆地这一时期的遗址进行调查。这些发掘的结果如下：1哈苏纳Ia时期是美索不达米亚北部出现第一批农业定居点的时代。这些定居点的分布本应限于伊拉克的北方。在我们发现卡什卡绍克二世之前，叙利亚没有发现这一时期的遗址。由于在哈布尔盆地发现了这个定居点，Hassuna Ia定居点的分布向西扩大了。2在Tell Kashkashok II的最低层，我们发现了一个挖入基岩的坑屋。在下一层有tauf墙的房间是石膏内衬的墙壁和地板上。在房间的角落里挖了几个石膏内衬的垃圾箱。3一些出土的物品受到来自黎凡特和安纳托利亚的材料的影响。因此，这个网站提供了新石器时代早期定居点的研究的重要信息。4后Hassuna Ia层，他们在Ubaid和Ekrak时期（公元前第五至第四千年）的墓地。我们得到了墓穴的结构。

Our expedition excavated a site of the early agricultural settlement named Tell Kashkashok II which dated to Hassuna Ia period(the sixth millenium B.C.) in the basin of the Khabur river, Hassake district, north-eastern part of Syria. We made a preliminary survey in 1985, and carried out two season's excavations which made from April to September 1987(the first season) and from July to December 1988 (the second season). The results of two season's excavations are very important to the study for the formation of the early agricultural community. Therefore, we want to continue hereafter the investigations of the sites of this period in the Khabur basin.The results of these excavations are as follow:1 The Hassuna Ia period was the era when the first agricultural settlements appeared in the North Mesopotamia. The distribution of these settlements was supposed to be limited in the northern part of Iraq. No site of this period was recognized in Syria until we found Kashkashok II. By the finding of this settlement in the Khabur basin, the distribution of the Hassuna Ia settlements was enlarged to the west.2 In the lowermost layer of Tell Kashkashok II, we found a pit house dug down into the bed rock. In the next layer there were tauf walled rooms which were gypsum-lined on the wall and the floor. Several gypsum-lined bins were dug at the corner of rooms.3 Some unearthed objects were influenced by the materials from the Levant and Anatoria. So, this site offers an important information for the study of the early Neolithic settlement.4 After Hassuna Ia layers, they made a cemetery in the Ubaid and the Uruk periods (fifth to fourth millenia B.C.). We were able to get the structure of grave pit.