Halafian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Halaf (referring to Tell Halaf in northern Syria) +‎ -ian

Adjective[edit]

Halafian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the Mesopotamian Neolithic Halaf culture.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160:
      According to Mellaart, the Halafian culture on the shores of the Euphrates in the mid-sixth millennium B.C. seems to have been greatly influenced by Anatolia.