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Abu Hureyra, Syria + archaeological evidence for domestication
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In 1963, despite the fact the project would eventually flood dozens of modern villages and ancient sites. The government of Syrian Arab Republic, decided to create dams on upper Euphrates river. Culminating a series of excavation and archaeological rescue operations. Among…
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Neolithic Anatolia, is Turkish: Anadolu. Is also known as Asia Minor, the western extent of Asia
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Its location centralizes between the intersections of Asia and Europe.8000 to 2000 BC timeline and periodization 8000 BC to 6500 BCPre-Pottery Neolithic, 11,000–6900 BCPottery Neolithic, 6900–6400 BCÇatal Höyük, 6900–6500 BC 6500 BC to 5000 BCPottery Neolithic, 6900–6400 BCChalcolithic, 6400–3800 BCHalaf culture,…
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Some of Turkeys popular neolithic architecture
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > About 7300 BC Carving from 7300 BC: Neolithic Hunters Attacking an Auroch Çatalhöyük is in southern Anatolia, and existed from 7100 BC to 5700 BC. It flourished around 7000 BC. Much is located overlooking the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day…
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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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Tell Labwe South was a Neolithic village at the headwaters of the Orontes, in the northern Beqaa Valley
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Location: Labweh/Labweh, northern Beqaa Valley, LebanonElevation: approximately 950 m above sea levelNeolithic sequence: Late PPNB through Early Pottery NeolithicApproximate calibrated occupation: roughly 7180–6430 BC, based on the published radiocarbon sequence [1][2]Landscape: upper Beqaa Valley, eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon…
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A Neolithic Mountain Hunting Camp in Lebanon was Nachcharini cave
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Nachcharini Cave, also written Mugharat an-Nachcharini or Nahcharini, is one of the most unusual prehistoric sites in Lebanon. It is not a large Neolithic village like Tell Labwe South. It is not a monumental ritual centre like Göbekli Tepe.…
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Gilgal Refaim is a large megalithic ceremonial monument on the Golan Heights, built primarily during the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age, several thousand years after the PPNA
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> The site lies on the central Golan Heights, east of the Sea of GalileeApproximately 30–40 km east of the Jordan Valley. Roughly 80 km east of Haifa.Rather than belonging to the Mediterranean woodland zone around Haifa or Upper Galilee,…
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Tell Shimshara (Tell Shemshara): A Neolithic Village at the Gateway of the Zagros
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell Shimshara is in Iraqi Kurdistan, in present-day Sulaymaniyah Governorate, on the northeastern edge of the Rania Plain. Its coordinates are approximately 36°12′03″ N, 44°56′18″ E, at about 500–515 m above sea level. It stood on a raised conglomerate…
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Dhuweila (Dhuweilah): A Desert Hunting Camp in Jordan’s Black Desert
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Dhuweila (also spelled Dhuweilah, Dhuweileh, or Duhhuweila) is one of the best-known prehistoric sites in Jordan’s eastern basalt desert (the Black Desert, or Harrat al-Sham). Unlike the farming villages of the Jordan Valley or the limestone highlands, Dhuweila was…
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Central Fertile Crescent: From Round Houses to Cell-Plan Villages. PPNA to PPNB Architectural Transformation Across Southeastern Anatolia
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Architecture Before Agriculture, and Agriculture Through ArchitectureThe Central Fertile Crescent provides one of the clearest archaeological sequences, showing how human architecture transformed between the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA, roughly 10,000–8,800 BCE) and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB, roughly 8,800–6,500…