Meanings
adjectiveHalafian (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or relating to the Mesopotamian Neolithic Halaf culture.
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 160
Origin
From Halaf (“referring to Tell Halaf in northern Syria”) + -ian.
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