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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…
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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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In Se Anatolia, upper Tigris valley, Körtik Tepe was a ‘symbol rich’ PPNA village in the Central Fertile Crescent
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Körtik Tepe is one of the most important Pre-Pottery Neolithic A sites in the central Fertile Crescent (Upper Tigris basin). It is especially famous for its extraordinary symbolic material culture, dense occupation, and early village organization without fully established…
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Demirköy Höyük is a PPNA site located in the Upper Tigris basin. It sits within the same broader cultural zone as Hallan Çemi, Körtik Tepe, & early Upper Tigris PPNA settlements
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> In the modern day Batman River tributary system, southeastern Turkey. There is an important pre pottery neolithic site called Demirköy Höyük. It represents a small sedentary settlement with no clear evidence for intensive cereal farming yet, but with strong…
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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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Protected: W. el-Jilet
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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…
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Protected: Habula
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Bouqras was a large Euphrates‑valley PPNB tell with evidence for early farming (wheat/barley, pulses), sheep/goat herding, long‑distance exchange (obsidian), & well organized rectangular mudbrick houses
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell Bouqras compares with other northern Levant PPNB sites like Dja’de, Mureybet, and Abu HureyraIt is on the right bank of the Euphrates, 35 km SE of Deir ez‑Zor;Its economy was of rain‑fed cereals (emmer, einkorn, barley), pulses; sheep/goat…