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ID: 6006683
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6006683
Record Type:
administrative
Zawi Chemi (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 044 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Great Zab River in the Zagros Mountains; typifies first settlements on borders of Mesopotamia dating from 9000 BC; shows earliest evidence of transition to sedentary life, agriculture & domestication of animals.
Names:
Zawi Chemi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Zawi Chemi-Shanidar
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Iraq
(nation) (
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Dahūk
(governorate) (
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Zawi Chemi
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in ca. 9000 BC
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Zawi Chemi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
232
Zawi Chemi-Shanidar..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1047
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
232
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1047
Note:
English
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VP
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