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In the west bank of the Jordan valley, Gilgal I had stored caches of fig, barley, oat, and acorn seeds. From 11,200 years ago
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Known for its neolithic remains. Gilgal I is an important archaeological site in Jordan. Located in the eastern Valley. 13km north of Jericho. Gilgal I is one of several archaeological sites in the region that provide valuable insights into the prehistoric…
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With some of the earliest signs of plant cultivation; and, brushwood dwellings. Ohalo II is an miraculous 23,000 year old archaeological site, on the sea of Galilee. It was best preserved under the last glacial maximum (LGM)
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Located in Israel, on the SW shore of the Sea of Galilee Ohalo II is renowned for its role in providing valuable insights into prehistoric human life. And, that is carbon dated to 23000BP. (1) Some 11000 years, before the onset…
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Tell Aswad is situated on the banks of an ancient lake, in a rich natural setting that dates to the neolithic
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Hill Black, Su-uk-su or Shuksa, is a large prehistoric tell. Located about 50km from Damascus, in SyriaIts on a tributary of the Barada River at the eastern end of the village of Jdeidet el Khass. (1) It is one of the…
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ʿAin Ghazal’ or, ‘Spring of the Ghazal maybe the site of the oldest largest statues ever discovered
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A neolithic archaeological site exists in Jordan. Near the capital city of Amman. One of the most remarkable finds at Ain Ghazal is a series of plastered statues, some of which represent human figuresOne of the oldest and large-sized statues ever…
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Yiftahel or Yiftaḥ’el is one of the key Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites in northern Israel & the Southern Levant, in the Lower Galilee region. Known for its PPNB occupation
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Yiftahel was excavated in the 1980s–1990s and has given archaeologists a very clear picture of the PPNA to PPNB transition, roughly 10,000–8,500 years ago. Setting Located on a low hill in the Lower Galilee, between the Jezreel Valley and…
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Wadi el‑Jilat is a multi‑site complex in the Azraq/Azraq‑Badia region of eastern Jordan. It was an important PPNB area with later Neolithic occupations
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Preserving early evidence for cultivated/domesticated cereals (notably einkorn at Jilat‑7), introduction of caprine herding in the steppe; long distance obsidian exchange & predominantly circular/oval house plans. Wadi el-Jilat was an important neolithic place in modern day Jordan. Wadi el‑Jilat…
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Khirbet Hammam is a well‑preserved Late Pre‑Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) village in the Wadi el‑Hasa (southern Levant). They have substantial standing architecture; rich faunal & botanical assemblages. Showing early farming & herd management
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Khirbet Hammam was excavated and reported in the early 2000sThe first field reports and synthesis emphasize a Late PPNB village with secure ^14C dates around 8,300 BP. Placing it in the LPPNB horizon of the southern Levant. Excavators recovered…
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Tell Ghoraifé (Ghorife) is a PPN tell in the Damascus basin. It has a well known middle–late PPNB sequence
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Showing early cereal cultivation (including early domesticated wheat/barley traits), Anatolian obsidian imports, stone‑built oval and rectilinear house evidence, and rich archaeobotanical datasets. Ghoraifé has pieces central to studies of agricultural and architecture origins in the southern Levant. Rather than…
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Dhra was a southern Levantine PPNA hamlet on the Dead Sea plain. With oval/semisubterranean stone‑built houses, early evidence for cultivation of cereals & specialized features (silos, benches, dense refuse). It marked a year‑round village, rather than a seasonal camp
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Dhra, Zahrat, adh‑Dhraʿ or ZAD 2 dates to the PPNA. Roughly 10,500–9,200 BC (final PPNA phases, and 9,200–8,300 BC for ZAD2 Its setting was the Alluvial fan or Dead Sea plain near ancestral Wadi adh‑DhraʿIts 10–20 km east of…