Talk:El Kowm (archaeological site)

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A fact from El Kowm (archaeological site) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 March 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that bone fragments of the Camelus Moreli, a new species of giant camel, were found at the archaeological site of El Kowm in Syria?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/March.

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Some suggestions

I noted at Yazan's talk page that this page is going to be prepared for DYK. Since El-Kowm is indeed an important site, but also highly complex, I put here some suggestions (which should only be taken as that: suggestions) which might benefit the article:

Split off the village and the site into El Kowm (village) and El Kowm (archaeological site) and make El Kowm a disambig page (and update the DYK link if this is done before the DYK hits the main page). Done
I suggest changing the organisation of the article into the one I use for my archaeological sites, see for example Tell Shemshara and Jemdet Nasr.
- In the "History of research" section you deal with the excavations in chronological order (when, where and by whom)
- In the "The site and its environment" you describe the El Kowm oasis in general and the different sites that have been recognized therein. It might help to create a pushpin map for the area to locate the different sites, if that info is available. You can discuss here the current environment and the palaeoenvironment, if that info is available.
- In the "Occupation history" section you deal with the occupation of the El Kowm oasis in chronological order (who occupied the site when, were they hunter/gatherers or farmers, social organization, etc).
- You can add an extra section "Material culture" in which you describe the different find categories (flint, bone, human skeletons etc) and their development in chronological order.
~~Don't bold the names of the sites within the larger El Kowm oasis; that is not MoS policy and it makes the article look messy, to be honest.~~ Done

I hope these suggestions are useful! -- Zoeperkoe (talk) 17:39, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]