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SITE ID - NAME :	M3	M’lefaat
ANCIENT NAME :	-
OTHER NAME :	M' Lefat
LOCATION :	North Iraq, Mosul
CHRONOLOGY :	Neolithic
PERIOD CODE :	2
DESCRIPTION :	A low mound measuring 125 by 75 m. A total of ten round/oval houses, some built of the earliest known bricks from Mesopotamia, have been excavated. The houses, up to 6 m in diameter and sometimes semi-subterranean, stood around a large open area used for communal domestic activities. The houses have been radiocarbon dated to 8300 BC. The subsistence was based on hunting and gathering.
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