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My guess is that there was also a strategic and defensive purpose to picking that site. A lot of archaeologists have a bias against assuming that ancient people were violent and often ignore military explanations for things like walls and defensive ditches. The beginning of Lawrence Keeley's book War Before Civilization where he talks about being denied a grant to study "prehistoric fortifications" until he changed the request to say "prehistoric enclosurs" illustrates the absurdity of the mindset. Yeah, prehistoric people built heavily fortified walls to keep their farm animals from running away...

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I love ancient civilizations, and read about them when I can. I am not one little bit surprised at the closed mindedness of academia. They tend to forget they have biases too.

I just am not sure if the Mesopotamians might have been avoiding the Hittites. I am not clear on if they were both around at the same time. My memory has the people of Mari as Sumerian's. Who are the Mesopotamians? Chaldean's? Assyrians? I hadn't heard of them before.