Bouqras
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Bouqras is a large, oval shaped, prehistoric, Neolithic Tell, about in size, located around from Deir ez-Zor in Syria.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Syria
- Located in
- Deir ez-Zor Governorate
- Location
- Euphrates
- Image
- Alabaster pot with handles, Buqras region 6500 BCE Louvre Museum AO 28519.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 6200-01-01
- inception
- 7400-00-00
- Commons category
- Bouqras
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Excavation
- Construction
- Culture
- Agriculture and animal domestication
- References
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Bouqras is a large, oval shaped, prehistoric, Neolithic Tell, about in size, located around from Deir ez-Zor in Syria.
==Excavation== The tell was discovered in 1960 by Dutch geomorphologist, Willem van Liere. It was excavated between 1960 and 1965 by Henri de Contenson and van Liere and later between 1976 and 1978 by Peter Akkermans, Maurits van Loon, J. J. Roodenberg and H. T. Waterbolk.
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