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Ain Ghazal. The Site: In Jordan, near Amman The period: Continuously inhabited from 7,250- 5,000(?) The People: Mainly subsistence farmers and hunters. Ain Ghazal near Wadi Zarqa Image: Rollefson “The Symbols of Ain Ghazal.
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Ain Ghazal The Site: In Jordan, near Amman The period: Continuously inhabited from 7,250- 5,000(?) The People: Mainly subsistence farmers and hunters Ain Ghazal near Wadi Zarqa Image: Rollefson “The Symbols of Ain Ghazal
Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 7,250-6,500 BCELate Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 6,500-6,000 BCEPre-Pottery Neolithic C 6,000-5,500 BCEYarmoukian Pottery Neolithic 5,500-5,000(?) BCE MPPNB House Plaster patches are covering sub-floor burials
A MPPNB burial Photo: G. Rollefson 4 adult male skulls placed Facing SW in a pit in a Courtyard Skull on Right still retains Plaster Photo; G. Rollefson
Statues from Cache 1. Photos from Ain Ghazal Institute Statue from Cache 1 (6,750+/- 80 BCE Woman showing her breasts
Statues from Cache 2 (6,570 +/- 110 BCE. Photos from Smithsonian Institute, Washington