Results from excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 2 (ZAD 2) in Jordan promise to resolve ambiguity over the introduction of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic В (PPNB) period in the southern Levant. Zahrat adh-Dhra ' 2 is the first southern PPNA site to date exclusively to the late PPNA period (9 600-9 300 BP/ 9 200-8 300 cal ВС). The settlement is a small mound containing a single phase of curvilinear architecture. It has yielded a range of characteristic PPNA material culture items and practices, including evidence of cranial removal, a varied ground stone industry with cup-hole mortars, geometrically incised plaques and pebbles ; and a lithic assemblage which includes bladelet cores, a preponderance of bladel...
The Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic transition (PPN to PN) in the Levant represents a key moment in...
Excavations conducted at the site of 'Ain Waida ', on the north side of the Wadi Dhra ', Jordan, hav...
Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant....
Results from excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 2 (ZAD 2) in...
Abstract: Recent excavations at Motza near Jerusalem revealed a large Neolithic site that was contin...
We present the first analysis of a chipped stone assemblage recovered from the PPNA layers of el-Hem...
Research on the PPNA of southern Jordan at WF16 suggests that a distinct Late PPNA phase develops at...
The recent discovery of EPPNB occupation at Tell Ain el-Kerkh (ca 9 400-9 200 uncal. BP) in northwes...
The recent archaeological fieldwork at the large Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin (Zarqa Vall...
While the predominant view of the Late Neolithic in the southern Levant remains that population dens...
The 1984 excavations in the South Field at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan, produced artifacts and features from...
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA; c. 9600–8500 cal BC) period in the Levant provides the earliest c...
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period saw the establishment of village farming in Southwest Asia...
The transition from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers in the Near East was one of the mos...
A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment...
The Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic transition (PPN to PN) in the Levant represents a key moment in...
Excavations conducted at the site of 'Ain Waida ', on the north side of the Wadi Dhra ', Jordan, hav...
Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant....
Results from excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat adh-Dhra' 2 (ZAD 2) in...
Abstract: Recent excavations at Motza near Jerusalem revealed a large Neolithic site that was contin...
We present the first analysis of a chipped stone assemblage recovered from the PPNA layers of el-Hem...
Research on the PPNA of southern Jordan at WF16 suggests that a distinct Late PPNA phase develops at...
The recent discovery of EPPNB occupation at Tell Ain el-Kerkh (ca 9 400-9 200 uncal. BP) in northwes...
The recent archaeological fieldwork at the large Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin (Zarqa Vall...
While the predominant view of the Late Neolithic in the southern Levant remains that population dens...
The 1984 excavations in the South Field at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan, produced artifacts and features from...
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA; c. 9600–8500 cal BC) period in the Levant provides the earliest c...
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period saw the establishment of village farming in Southwest Asia...
The transition from mobile hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers in the Near East was one of the mos...
A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment...
The Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic transition (PPN to PN) in the Levant represents a key moment in...
Excavations conducted at the site of 'Ain Waida ', on the north side of the Wadi Dhra ', Jordan, hav...
Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant....