Abstract
This is a report concerning the field work undertaken in the Hamlet of Qisq al-Shamali, east of Aleppo in Syria. I conducted my research over there during the months of July and August, 1996, in cooperation with the archaeological research team. While the team concentrated upon the research of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic site of Tell Kosak Shamali at the village, I conducted interviews with the men of the village in order to clarify its history, to obtain information that could come in useful for archaeological research, and to explore the possibility of a general survey of the area on the basis of multi-disciplinary viewpoints. This is merely a preliminary report, because the time spent on my research was not long enough and because the cooperation is still underway. In this paper, the analysis of the social institutions, households, family names, descent groups, and oral traditions, led to the conclusion that the present village was founded in the not so distant past, presumably in the 19th century.
