ARCHITECTURAL PATTERNS DURING NINEVITE V PERIOD IN THE KHABOUR BASIN
Authors/Creators
- 1. Damascus University, Faculty of Literature and Humanity sciences, Dep. of Archaeology and Museum, Mazzeh str., Damascus, Syria ( nancy.badra@hotmail.com)
Description
The period between the end of the fourth millennium BC and the beginning of the third millennium BC witnessed the transition from the Prehistoric Age to the Historic Ages, before the founding of the Akkadian Empire. In general, when moving from one age to another, there must be a short transition period that bears
some of the characteristics of the previous age as well as some rudimentary features of the successive period in order to prepare for the coming period. And this is clearly noticeable during Ninevite v period, dated from 3000-2500 BC, which bore the same architectural patterns and forms that had appeared in the previous
period LC5 i.e. Late Chalcolothic, such as the simple small temples in the shape of shrines and the Tripartite houses. As for the features that paved the way for the subsequent period, they were characterized by pottery with the paste, shape, and distinctive decoration which appeared for the first time during this period in large
quantities, unlike the former production in LC5 period that was based o the simplicity of forms, manual processing, and mass production. Besides the pottery, a type of economic specialization and work organization was discovered in the Khabour Basin sites, where storage facilities appeared in the Middle
Khabour Basin and that adopted storage of agriculture products which was harvested from the Upper Khabour Basin sites, this along with many other aspects which will be discussed in detail through this research.