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British excavations at Chagar Bazar, 2001-2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Augusta McMahon ,
Carlo Colantoni  and
Miranda Semple
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Excavations at Chagar Bazar by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq team continued in 2001 and 2002 in Areas A and G (Fig. 1). In both areas, the final occupation of the site, datable to ca 1800–1650 BC, was investigated. Cuneiform tablets from Max Mallowan's 1930s excavations testify to the key position held by Chagar Bazar at the beginning of this period. His work had exposed large areas of domestic and administrative structures, but stratigraphic and relational uncertainties remained which merited further investigation. The archaeological situation at the fringes of Shamshi-Addu's Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia are still somewhat enigmatic, and the aftermath of its collapse has not been intensively explored.

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IRAQ , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , Autumn 2005 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2005

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