Bakr Awa is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Sulaymaniyah Province, Iraq.

The excavators mentioned that they expanded a trench dug by George Martin Lees 40 years before.

Texts include "administrative documents, sealed clay bullae, a list of witnesses - probably part of a legal document -, a letter, a hemerology, extispicy omens and prayers, as well as a fragment of the so-called Weidner God-list".

[13] Though no settlement remains were excavated, late 4th millennium BC Uruk period pottery shards were found.

In particular a feature original thought to be an altar was recognized as a domestic shrine, typical for the period.

[1] In the Early Dynastic period, the economy was nomadic and based on sheep and goat (74.1%), mainly killed for meat.

[16] In the Akkadian period, the economy shifted from nomadic to more sedentary and pastoral, introducing new elements as pig and poultry breeding as well as wild animal hunting.