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Last Week in Pleiades (28 November - 5 December 2022)

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Last week we published 11 new place resources. In addition, 113 existing place resources were updated.
Last Week in Pleiades (28 November - 5 December 2022)

New Place Resources

  • One of three tells (archaeological mounds) located near Dalma in northwestern Iran, the excavation of Agrab Tepe in 1961 yielded Neolithic remains. According to Muscarella (1973), the tell is sited southwest of Hasanlu in the Solduz Valley.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Dalma Tepe is an archeological site located in western Azerbaijan, some 5 km southwest of Ḥasanlū Tepe.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The third tell near Dalma, Iran, that remains unexcavated.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • The site of Dinkha Tepe is located in the Ushnu valley of Iranian Azerbaijan. Sir Aurel Stein initially identified second-millennium BCE funereal deposits there. The University of Pennsylvania Museum, under Robert H. Dyson, jr. and Oscar White Muscarella, carried out further excavations in the late 1960s.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • A clay pot with about thirty clay tablets was found to the north of the Šamaš Gate at Nineveh, in a secondary context. The archive, whose texts are dated between 669 BC and the fall of Nineveh (612 BC), belonged to Ninurta-šarru-uṣur (“the son of the palace”), as well as to several other people, including some Egyptians. This small archive consists of loan and purchase documents, legal texts, as well as a piece of correspondence.
    Creators: Thomas Seidler
    Contributors: Jamie Novotny; Tom Elliott
  • Nuraghe Cabudbbene I is a single tower nuraghe built of trachyte.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
  • A Roman villa, identified and initially excavated since 2018, located in the modern district of Rutland (England, United Kingdom), east of Foster's Bridge and southwest of Ketton.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
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  • Site on the western bank of Shaytanskoe Lake, Sverdlovsk Oblast, containing remains dated to the early Bronze Age.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • Tell Baqrta, an archaeological site located 28 km south of Erbil, may be the Neo-Assyrian town known as Baqarru.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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  • Island in Lake Turgoyak, Chelyabink Oblast, containing a number of megalithic monuments dated to the Neolithic Period.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
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  • A ruined Romano-British villa located near Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, in the valley of the River Purwell.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
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Modified Place Resources