Information AboutMureybet |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT MUREYBET | |
| archaeological sites in syria | |
| asian archaeology | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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In 1971, Jacques Cauvin began the excavation at Mureybet, identifying four main archeological levels,beginning with the pre-pottery, pre-agricultural culture of the Late wheat has been found at Mureybet, and the villagers began to grow peas and barley. The work on the site was urgent, cut short in 1993 by the filling of the reservoir, Lake Assad . Artifacts from the Mureybet site, including corpulent figurines of a goddess, are held at the National Museum of Antiquities, Damascus , among the most important artifacts that have been found are counting tokens, comparable to tokens from many Near Eastern sites. The token system was the earliest system employing concrete signs for transmitting information, predating writing by millennia. EXTERNAL LINKS
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