Tatiana V. Kornienko

Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Voronezh, Russia
E-mail: zigzinatvk@gmail.com

Keywords: the pre-pottery Neolithic, the Early Pottery Neolithic, Magzalia, Ҫayönü, zone of neolithization in Northern Iraq.

Tell Magzalia is a unique site of the late pre-pottery Neolithic in Northern Iraq studied by the Soviet expedition in the 1970s. To date, there have been significant advances in studying the formation of the Neolithic way of life in Western Asia in technological and methodological terms, in the accumulation of factual material and its conceptual understanding. However, the data on Tell Magzalia are not always taken into account in the consolidated works devoted to the neolithization of Western Asia. This seems to be connected with the absence of a series of radiocarbon dates from Tell Magzalia and, to an even greater extent, with the absence of other studied sites comparable in their occupational period with Tell Magzalia in the Northern Iraqi centre of neolithization. The article discusses the place of Tell Magzalia within the system of early Neolithic settlements of Northern Mesopotamia and neighbouring territories using data obtained over the past decades.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630012626-7