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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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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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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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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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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…
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Tell Kosak Shamali is a multi‑period upper Euphrates tell with substantial PPNB & later Ubaid–Chalcolithic occupations
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Its not the origin of animal domestication but shows early farming economies and, importantly, large-scale pottery workshops in later phases. In modern day nw Syria, Tell Kosak Shamali was a well known PPNB site. Tell Kosak Shamali was a…