The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded
strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the
Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but independently of the more
celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.


A. that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong
evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the
Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but

B. that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence
that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle
East were arising simultaneously with but also

C. having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong
evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the
Middle East were arising simultaneously but

D. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of
centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East
arising simultaneously but also

E. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that
centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East
arose simultaneously with but