Left: Beads from the cache found beneath a residential building at Tell Brak of the mid-4th millennium BC. Right: Alabaster bear figurine, height 9 cm, mid-4th millennium BC. Traces of red and black pigment survive on the head and claws. ( Antiquity)
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