Amuq

A swampy plain in northern Syria east of Antioch (Antakya) at the foot of the Amanus mountains and beside the Orontes River at the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea. Its important sites Tayanat (Neolithic-Chalcolithic), Atchana (Copper Age to Hittite), and Antioch (Hellenistic and Roman). The plain is rich in tell settlements of the prehistoric and later periods. The basic prehistoric sequence for the area has phases designated by letters, as 'Amuq A represents the Early Neolithic.

Plain in northern Syria near the Turkish border east of Antioch. The plain is rich in tell settlements of the prehistoric and later periods. Excavations at Tell Judeidah and other sites by the Oriental Institute of Chicago University in the 1930s established the basic prehistoric sequence for the area (with phases designated by letters: for instance, Amuq A represents the Early Neolithic). Other important sites on the Amuq plain include Tell Atchana and Antioch itself.