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The Jarmo site is located in the Zagros mountains of northern Iraq. It’s considered one of the most important neolithic sites. In the ‘hilly flanks’, ‘fertile crescent’, & near east. It is placed among the earliest sites. Where humans transitioned, from a primarily hunter-gatherer lifestyle, to one based on agriculture
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands. At an altitude of 800 m above sea-level. Lies a beautiful prehistoric community in the Adhaim river watershed. Excavations revealed that Jarmo was an agricultural community dating back to more than 9000 years…
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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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M’lefaat was a Eastern Fertile Crescent PPNA village on the edge of farming
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> M’lefaat is one of the key Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) sites in the eastern Fertile Crescent. It is located in modern day, northern Iraqui Kurdistan region, within the Zagros foothills east of Mosul. The site actually dates broadly to…
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In modern day northern Iraq, Nemrik 9 begin in the eastern Fertile Crescent. It is one of the key PPNA–PPNB village transitions
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Nemrik 9 is one of the most important early Neolithic settlements in the Upper Tigris / Kurdish foothills zone of northern Iraq (Dohuk Governorate). It spans a long sequence from the late PPNA into the early/middle PPNB (9800–8200 BC),…
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Choga Mami: Irrigation, Mudbrick Architecture and the Neolithic Transformation of Eastern Mesopotamia
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Choga Mami is one of the most important Neolithic sites in Iraq for understanding how farming communities adapted to a dry, marginal-rainfall environment through water management. It is particularly valuable because it brings together several themes that rarely occur…
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Tell es-Sawwan: A Neolithic Tigris Settlement at the Edge of the Zagros World
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell es-Sawwan is one of the most important Neolithic settlements in Iraq for understanding the transition from early village farming to more complex, organized communities. It is especially valuable for Neolithic Architecture because it combines unusually sophisticated mudbrick architecture,…
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Yarim Tepe, Northern Iraq: A Hassuna Village at the Edge of the Zagros
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Yarim Tepe is particularly important because it is a cluster of closely related mounds—Yarim Tepe I, II and III—on the Sinjar Plain of northern Iraq. Preserving successive stages of northern Mesopotamian village life, from the Hassuna period into the…
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Tell Hassuna, Iraq: The Neolithic Village That Gave Its Name to a Culture
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Tell Hassuna is one of the foundational archaeological sites for understanding the emergence of Pottery Neolithic village life in northern Mesopotamia. Excavated in 1943–44 by the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities under Seton Lloyd and Fuad Safar, with Robert…