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HISTORY
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CURRENT PHASE OF EXCAVATIONS REPORTS and NEWSLETTERS ONLINE 1996-2000
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE UBAID LEVELS
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Trench Director Kathryn Keith supervising workmen HISTORY OF RESEARCH AT
TELL KURDU Excavations
first took place in 1938 under the direction of Robert Braidwood of the
Oriental Institute. In an eleven-day campaign, he excavated four deep
soundings from different parts of the site, in order to collect stratified
materials for the development of a regional ceramic sequence. He
demonstrated that Kurdu was occupied in Amuq Phases C, D and E, roughly
contemporaneous with the Halaf and Ubaid cultures of
Between 1996 and 2000, a new phase of research took place, under
the direction of Dr. Aslihan Yener, also of the Oriental Institute, as
part of the Amuq
Valley Regional Project. One of
the primary goals of the project was to gain a better understanding of the
spatial development of the settlement during its long history of
occupation. This goal was reached through a combination of excavation
trenches and soundings, as well as magnetrometry surveys of the mound
surface. For further information on research of the 1996 to 2000 seasons,
see the reports for those years The
year 2001 marked the beginning of the next stage in the Tell Kurdu
Excavations, as Dr. Aslihan Yener handed responsibility for the
excavations over to Rana D. Özbal (
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