Barda Balka is an archeological site near the Little Zab and Chamchamal in the Iraqi Kurdistan, north of modern-day Iraq.

[1] The site was discovered on a hilltop in 1949 by Sayid Fuad Safar and Naji al-Asil from the Directorate General of Antiquities, Iraq.

Stone tools were found amongst a particular layer of Pleistocene gravels that dated to the late Acheulean period.

[2] Barada Balka is where hominids hunted wild cattle, sheep, goats, and equids and ate shells and turtles some 100-150,000 years ago.

This site is of special note in that it provides the only evidence in Mesopotamian prehistory for the hunting or scavenging of Indian elephants and rhinoceros.