Council for British Research inward the Levant (CBRL) Digital Monographs CBRL makes character query available alongside opened upward access to our novel serial of digital monographs. We are delighted to part alongside you the showtime inward this serial of monographs WF16 The Excavation of an Early Neolithic Settlement inward Southern Jordan. To download the PDF delight click the link below.
WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement inward Southern Jordan; stratigraphy, chronology, architecture together with burials by Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Darko Maričević, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins together with Mohammad Najjar
2018
ISBN 978-0-9539102-3-6 hardback
ISBN 978-0-9539102-4-3 paperback

WF16 is located inward the spectacular Wadi Faynan expanse of Southern Jordan. Evaluation of the site was undertaken betwixt 1997 together with 2006 alongside a monograph detailing results of the evaluation published inward 2007 (Finlayson & Mithen 2007). Material remains at the site dot that settlement occurred during the Pre Pottery Neolithic H5N1 (PPNA) period, alongside a suite of radiocarbon dates indicating trace of piece of job betwixt 11,600 together with 10,200 BP (Before Present – earlier 1950). Originally defined yesteryear Kathleen Kenyon during earthworks at Jericho inward the 1950s, the PPNA is traditionally seen equally the earliest manifestation of an agricultural economic scheme inward the world, alongside villages occupied yesteryear sedentary groups practicing to a greater extent than or less shape of cultivation. The PPNA brought to an cease to a greater extent than than 2 1 G m years of hunting together with gathering together with lay the foundations for the showtime civilisations. Despite to a greater extent than than l years of research, our agreement of PPNA gild has remained limited. The earthworks of WF16 offers the potential to significantly heighten our agreement of the PPNA together with the origins of the Neolithic.
The earthworks was made possible yesteryear the provision of funding from the Arts together with Humanities Research Council together with the Wenner Gren Foundation. The University of Reading together with CBRL provided generous back upward to the projection throughout the course of written report of the excavation.
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