Chemical analysis of Proto-Hassuna and Archaic Hassuna pottery from three sites in the Djebel Sinjar confirms results already obtained concerning the circulation of pottery in the VIth millennium (1), in particular the relatively large quantity of imported pottery on each site, the variation in distance over which the pottery travelled (several kilometers to several hundred kilometers), the permanence of certain supply sources and the extent of diffusion zone of DFBW pottery. These new data also strengthen hypotheses that pottery craft specialization existed already in this period. These data, compared with earlier ones from Bouqras, suggest a model for pottery production and diffusion.
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