Hakemi Use Excavations Within the Ilisu Project

Hakemi Use is located in the Upper Tigris valley.This mound settlement is ca.150 km to the north of the modern Turkish-Syrian border.This site is within the flooding zone of Ilısu Dam built on the Tigris River.The excavations were started in 2001 and were completed in 2012 by a Turkish team from Hacettepe University at Ankara.The site consists of two individual settlements situated 200 m apart.The eastern one, known as Hakemi Use II, was a small Medieval (14 th century) settlement.Hakemi Use I, to the west, contain just two periods: Late Assyrian and Late Neolithic.The archaeological deposit at Hakemi Use I are approximately four-meter deep and contain two building levels for Late Assyrian, and five building levels for Late Neolithic.This study covers a general assessment of the excavations carried out in the Hakemi Use I settlement.