Covering 92 hectares, tel Hamoukar is one of the largest Chalcolithic-period centers in the Upper Mesopotamian region. Excavations led by the University of Chicago in 2005 uncovered mounds of baked sling bullets embedded in a burn layer dated to around 3500 BCE\u2014the earliest known archaeological evidence of organized warfare.<\/p>\n
Before its destruction, the site was a hub for steatite seal production and the weaving of fine linen textiles exported southward toward Uruk, as suggested by seal motifs depicting ships and pack animals\u2014clear signs of long-distance trade.<\/p>\n
The upper layers revealed a small Assyrian administrative settlement, including a governor\u2019s residence built of limestone. Since 2014, illegal digging has damaged parts of the northern fortification, prompting local restorers to backfill the tunnels using lime-rich mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Covering 92 hectares, tel Hamoukar is one of the largest Chalcolithic-period centers in the Upper Mesopotamian region. Excavations led by the University of Chicago in 2005 uncovered mounds of baked sling bullets embedded in a burn layer dated to around 3500 BCE\u2014the earliest known archaeological evidence of organized warfare. Before its destruction, the site was a hub for steatite seal production and the weaving of fine linen textiles exported southward toward Uruk, as suggested by seal motifs depicting ships and pack animals\u2014clear signs of long-distance trade. The upper layers revealed a small Assyrian administrative settlement, including a governor\u2019s residence built of limestone. Since 2014, illegal digging has damaged parts of the northern fortification, prompting local restorers to backfill the tunnels using lime-rich mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,322],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-al-hasakah","category-historical-landmarks-al-hasakah","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}