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From the 1960s, the building of large scale dams on the Euphrates River, unfortunately have placed many ancient and modern settlements under water, including important ancient sites like Samosata, and Apamea totally, and Zeugma partly. Harabebezikan is such a site, that it was affected by Carchemish Dam construction, and this paper will present a group of Late Roman pottery found in a short term rescue excavation there. Among the Late Roman pottery finds from sites, quite a number of local coarse ware, a few "Late Roman C" Ware; cooking pots belonging to the so-called Brittle Ware and also North Syrian Amphorae are represented. Only a handful of examples from sites in Southeast Anatolia and North Syria have been published. For that reason, their types, production centers and distribution areas have been not clear so far. Although Harabebezikan examples do not provide new evidence for dating, they are important as there are some new types here and the site gives new distribution evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Liza abu stocks from the rivers Orontes, Euphrates and Tigris were investigated using genetic and morphometric data. Allozyme electrophoresis for genetic comparison and the truss network system for morphometric comparison were simultaneously applied to the same sample set. Highly significant morphological differences were observed between the 3 Liza abu stocks. The correct classification of individuals into their original samples for morphological characters was very high (100% of individuals). In discriminant function analyses, plotting discriminant functions revealed high isolation of the 3 stocks; the Tigris stock was very isolated from the Euphrates and Orontes stocks, and the Euphrates stock was located between the Tigris and Orontes stocks, but was closer to the Orontes stock. The pattern of phenotypic discreteness suggests a direct relationship between the extent of phenotypic divergence and geographic separation. However, genetic data do not support the detected morphometric variations. A 5 enzyme system (ICD, PGM, ME, MDH, G3PDH) composed of 6 loci was used to determine genetic comparison. All the loci were monomorphic and therefore there was no genetic divergence among the stocks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]