DOI article:
Kozłowski, Stefan Karol: Nemrik 9
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NEMRIK 9
by Stefan Karol Koztowski
In the years 1985-1989 an expedition of Warsaw University directed by the
present author conducted extensive archaeological research on Nemrik 9, a site in
northern Iraq (Dohuk district) lying some 50 km northwest of Mosul. The investigations
were sponsored by the PCMA and Iraqi Service of Antiquities to whom we ought many
thanks for their help and support. The present report covers not only fieldwork, but
also some of the lab analyses as well,as detailed studies, either published already or
currently in print.
The site or at least its later phases date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is a large
multi-phase settlement covering a maximum area of 2.5-3 hectares.'It lies on the Tigris,
just 2.5 km from the modern river bed, on the second terrace some 65-70 m above the
present level of the river. The terrace itself is cut by numerous ivad/sflowing generally
from the north to the Tigris and gathering water from the not too distant highlands of
the Kurdish Mountains. The Nemrik site lies on a sort of peninsular terrace confined on
the east and west by wadis.
CHRONOLOGY
The dating of the Nemrik site is based on a long series of c" analyses conducted
in the Gliwice Laboratory by M. Pazdur. Disregarding dates that are aberrations, the
beginnings of the settlement should be put at the close of the 9^ millennium b.c. and its
end in the middle of the 7^ millennium.
For full decsription of the site and contour map see: S.
K. Kozlowski, K. Szymczak, Preneolithic Site Nemrik 9, in:
Researches on the Antiquities of Saddam Dam Basin Project, Bagdad
1987; S. K. Kozlowski (ed.), Nemrik 9. Pre-pottery Neolithic
Site in Iraq. General Report - Seasons 1985-1986, Warsaw 1990.
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by Stefan Karol Koztowski
In the years 1985-1989 an expedition of Warsaw University directed by the
present author conducted extensive archaeological research on Nemrik 9, a site in
northern Iraq (Dohuk district) lying some 50 km northwest of Mosul. The investigations
were sponsored by the PCMA and Iraqi Service of Antiquities to whom we ought many
thanks for their help and support. The present report covers not only fieldwork, but
also some of the lab analyses as well,as detailed studies, either published already or
currently in print.
The site or at least its later phases date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is a large
multi-phase settlement covering a maximum area of 2.5-3 hectares.'It lies on the Tigris,
just 2.5 km from the modern river bed, on the second terrace some 65-70 m above the
present level of the river. The terrace itself is cut by numerous ivad/sflowing generally
from the north to the Tigris and gathering water from the not too distant highlands of
the Kurdish Mountains. The Nemrik site lies on a sort of peninsular terrace confined on
the east and west by wadis.
CHRONOLOGY
The dating of the Nemrik site is based on a long series of c" analyses conducted
in the Gliwice Laboratory by M. Pazdur. Disregarding dates that are aberrations, the
beginnings of the settlement should be put at the close of the 9^ millennium b.c. and its
end in the middle of the 7^ millennium.
For full decsription of the site and contour map see: S.
K. Kozlowski, K. Szymczak, Preneolithic Site Nemrik 9, in:
Researches on the Antiquities of Saddam Dam Basin Project, Bagdad
1987; S. K. Kozlowski (ed.), Nemrik 9. Pre-pottery Neolithic
Site in Iraq. General Report - Seasons 1985-1986, Warsaw 1990.
102