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Architecture, Burials, Hunting, Exchange & the Neolithic Landscape of Central Israel. Nahal Yarmuth 38: A PPNB Burial Site in the Hills
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Nahal Yarmuth 38 is a small but exceptionally informative Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (MPPNB) site in central Israel, near modern Beit Shemesh. Excavated in 2017–2018 by a joint Tel Aviv University–Israel Antiquities Authority team, the site covers only about…
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Nesher-Ramla Quarry Neolithic Site (NRQN) or simply Nesher-Ramla Quarry was an early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site (EPPNB)
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> The site is situated in central Israels Judean LowlandsAbout 30 km east off the Mediterranean coast, 20 km southeast of Tel Aviv. It is roughly 70 km northwest of Jerusalem. About 110 km west of Jericho and 85 km…
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Tell Motza (also written Tel Moẓa) is a really important site near Jerusalem in the Judean Hills. During the Neolithic era, it provides a window into the spread and development of early farming communities in the southern Levant
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Occupation at Motza begins in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), around 8500–7000 BCEThis was the era when agriculture, animal domestication, and permanent architecture were rapidly expanding across the Levant. Excavations revealed rectangular houses with stone foundations and mudbrick superstructures, typical of the…