By Nancy Badra
ABSTRACT
The period between the end of the fourth millennium BC and the beginning of the third millennium BC
witnessed the transition from the Prehistoric Age t the Historic Ages, before the founding of the Akkadian
Empire. In general, when moving from one age to another, there must be a short transition period that bears
some of the characteristics of the previous age as well as some rudimentary features of the successive period
in order to prepare for the coming period. And this is clearly noticeable during Ninevite v period, dated
from 3000-2500 BC, which bore the same architectural patterns and forms that had appeared in the previous
period LC5 i.e. Late Chalcolothic, such as the simple small temples in the shape of shrines and the Tripartite
houses. As for the features that paved the way for the subsequent period, they were characterized by pottery
with the paste, shape, and distinctive decoration which appeared for the first time during this period in large
quantities, unlike the former production in LC5 period that was based o the simplicity of forms, manual
processing, and mass production. Besides the pottery, a type of economic specialization and work
organization was discovered in the Khabour Basin sites, where storage facilities appeared in the Middle
Khabour Basin and that adopted storage of agriculture products which was harvested from the Upper
Khabour Basin sites, this along with many other aspects which will be discussed in detail through this
research.
