By around 6000 BC people had moved into the foothills (piedmont) of northernmost Mesopotamia where there was enough rainfall to allow for "dry" agriculture in some places.

They made Hassuna-style pottery (cream slip with reddish paint in linear designs).

Hassuna people lived in small villages or hamlets ranging 2–8 acres (0.81–3.24 ha).

Hand axes, sickles, grinding stones, bins, baking ovens, and numerous bones of domesticated animals reflect settled agricultural life.

Pre-Proto-Hassuna refers to the Late Neolithic period in Upper Mesopotamia when the ceramic containers were just being introduced.

Other related sites in the area are Sotto and Yarim Tepe I, having 585 recorded ceramic fragments.