Kānī Shāyah
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 06, 2025 09:42 AM
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History
A small site in Kurdistan, Iraq, consisting of a high and low mound with remains from the fourth and early third millennium BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/743192303
35.5579565868, 45.1763910305
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Kani Shaie (4000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Kānī Shāyah (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kani Shaie (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- كاني شاية (Kānī Shāyah: Arabic, modern)
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archaeological site
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Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg, Jeffrey Becker, David Meadows, and Tom Elliott, 'Kānī Shāyah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/743192303> [accessed: 06 December 2025]
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