Tell Begum

Tell Begum is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Iraq. It is located near Said Sadiq in the Shahrizor Plain in Iraqi Kurdistan. The archaeological site consists of a steep conical mound 9 metres (30 ft) high, and a lower mound. It covers an area of 5 hectares (12 acres). The site was first investigated in 1960 by a team of Iraqi archaeologists. In 2013, a new excavation was carried out by archaeologists from Leiden University. This project restudied the older excavations and also conducted limited new excavations.[1]

The oldest excavated layers date to Late Halaf period. After an apparent hiatus in occupation, the site was resettled in the Late Chalcolithic 1 (LC1) period and continued to be in use into the Late Chalcolithic 3 (LC3) period (4300-3600 BC). Medieval occupation has also been attested.[1][2]

References
  1. "Shahrizor Survey Project". Leiden University. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  2. Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier; Odaka, Takahiro; Kaneda, Akemi; Mühl, Simone; Rasheed, Kamal; Altaweel, Mark (2016). "REVISITING TELL BEGUM: A PREHISTORIC SITE IN THE SHAHRIZOR PLAIN, IRAQI KURDISTAN". IRAQ. 78: 103–135. doi:10.1017/irq.2016.7. ISSN 0021-0889.
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