'Ain Ghazal
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- OSM location of 'Ain Ghazal (10000 BC - 3300 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- See Further:
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- Banning, E. B. and Brian F. Byrd. 1984. “The Architecture of PPNB ʿAin Ghazal, Jordan.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 255:15-20.
- Gates 2013, 19-20.
- McAdam 1997
- Peregrine and Ember 2003 12-13
- Rollefson, G. O. 1983. “Ritual And Ceremony At Neolithic Ain Ghazal (Jordan).” Paléorient 9.2:29-38.
- Rollefson, Gary O. and Alan Simmons. 1987. "The Life and Death of Ain Ghazal." Archaeology 40.6:38-45.
- Schmandt-Besserat. D. 1998. “‘Ain Ghazal Monumental Figures.” Bulletin of American School of Oriental Research 310:1-17.
- Schmandt-Besserat. D. 2013. Symbols at ʻAin Ghazal. Berlin: Ex Oriente.
- Wikipedia (English) 'Ain Ghazal
Pleiades
The Neolithic settlement of 'Ain Ghazal is located in northwestern Jordan, today in the outskirts of modern Amman. Occupation at the site began toward the end of the eighth millennium B.C. (ca. 7250 B.C.) and continued until ca. 5000 B.C. Covering some 15 hectares, 'Ain Ghazal is one of the largest Neolithic settlements known in the Near East.
'Ain Ghazal began as a typical Neolithic village. Its domestic architecture is agglomerative in nature and built atop an artificial terrace.
'Ain Ghazal shows evidence for early cultivation of cereals and legumes, as well as evidence for early goat domestication.
The people of 'Ain Ghazal practiced secondary burial of human crania, similar to other such deposits known at sites such as Jericho. A series of 32 anthropomorphic statues have been found in two deposits.
Jeffrey Becker, ''Ain Ghazal: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/357303540> [accessed: 31 August 2024]
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