Archaeological culture · early 6th millennium BCE

Hassuna culture

An early farming culture of northern Mesopotamia, named after Tell Hassuna south of Mosul in Iraq. Its villagers grew cereals, kept animals and made painted and incised pottery.

Hassuna, Samarra and Halaf pottery styles overlap in time and place, and archaeologists use them to trace how farming communities spread over the plains of northern Iraq and Syria.

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6000–5500 BCE