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Tensorer, Inge Diethelm, Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research, The University of Basel - Departement of Prehistory Archaeological Mission, Damascus University - Département of Prehistory Archaeological Mission., Le paléolithique d'El Kowm (Syrie): rapport 1995, 130 pages,
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excavated El Kowm II more recently and dated this to the
Neolithic as far back as c. 7000 BC. Van Zeist suggested that some form of irrigation may have been employed at El Kowm I and the excavators at El Kowm II tentatively agreed with the hypothesis. Stordeur suggested that whilst the nearby
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about 3 hectares (7.4 acres) in size. They categorised their findings into 5 periods; Early
Neolithic (A), Middle Neolithic (B–C), Late Neolithic (D) and Post-Neolithic (E). Further excavations were made into a small outlying tell called El Kowm II by
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level of the Old
Paleolithic at Nadaouiyeh Aïn Askar. It has been described as one of the most important human skull fragments in the Middle East showing Far-Eastern features and giving us valuable knowledge about early human migration and origins.
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have been found and analysed. The site was abandoned prior to 11000 BC, and then re-occupied in the
Neolithic between 7000 and 6500 BC with a large sedentary settlement. Houses were well built and compartmentalised, many of which included
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Schmid, P.; Rentzel, Ph.; Renault-Miskovsky, J.; Muhesen, Sultan; Morel, Ph.; Le
Tensorer, Jean Marie; Jagher, R. 1997: Découvertes de restes humains dans les niveaux acheuléens de Nadaouiyeh Aïn Askar (El Kowm, Syrie Centrale).
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sites at El Kowm called
Nadaouiyeh Aïn Askar, showing periods of inhabitation between 500,000 and 100,000 BP, and Hummal, showing evidence of human inhabitation of over 1 million years through the
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features, El Kowm I and El Kowm II showed no signs of short term settlement. They suggesting the inhabitants could have made simple channels from the local
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An initial 5-day sounding was made in 1967 by M.N. van Loon and R. H. Dornemann with a 3 by 50 metres (9.8 by 164.0 ft) trench at El Kowm I; a large
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Cauvin, Jacques., Watkins, Trevor. (translator), The birth of the Gods and the origins of agriculture, p. 235, Cambridge
University Press (27 July 2000).
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Dornemann, Rudolph Henry., A Neolithic village at Tell el Kowm in the Syrian Desert, Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago, 89 pages, 1986.
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Natural springs clearly cluster around the southwest and northern rim of the plateau have sustained permanent settlements in the
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and hard wheat had been cultivated since the earliest Neolithic stage at El Kowm I dating to c. 6300 BC.
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between rooms with holes to drain water out of the buildings. Art was found in the form of a painted
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El Kowm 2 : une île dans le désert - La fin du néolithique précéramique dans la steppe syrienne
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patterns. This type of early irrigation is similar to that suggested to have been employed at
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and camelids. Vegetation was only possible for short periods in the Middle and Upper
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on a plaster vessel. Comparisons of the Neolithic level culture have been made with
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dating as far back as 150,000 years at the Hummal site in El Kowm, a new species of
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243:Management
206:Site notes
200:Mousterian
165:c. 6500 BC
157:c. 7000 BC
94:38°49′00″E
91:35°09′00″N
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364:Acheulean
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235:Condition
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182:Neolithic
162:Abandoned
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483:rainfall
402:gazelles
346:Tayacian
315:Mureybet
188:Cultures
143:Material
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487:Jericho
479:gravity
475:springs
471:nomadic
439:Bouqras
423:gutters
392:Culture
380:camelid
338:Oldowan
281:, near
275:Palmyra
267:Al Kawm
263:El Kowm
192:Oldowan
170:Periods
154:Founded
138:History
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