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What do the clay sickles found at Nineveh suggest about contact with southern Mesopotamia?
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Nineveh
The partially reconstructed Nergal Gate in Nineveh, Iraq.
During the 4th millennium BCE, farmers at Nineveh utilized clay sickles of a specific type also found during the Ubaid period in southern Mesopotamia. The presence of these tools suggests that there was contact between the northern settlement and the south during that era.1