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Final Report on the 1991-94 Excavations at Tell esh-Shuna North, Jordan

Many of these issues are being addressed through the analysis of evidence from excavations at Tell esh-Shuna in the north Jordan Valley undertaken 1991-94. The site has revealed a stratigraphic sequence which allows us to chart changes in the subsistence economy, the organisation of space, the production and deployment of material culture, and local and interregional connections through the 4th millennium BC, i.e. the...

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The Pre-pottery Neolithic A Site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 and the Dawn of Farming by the Dead Sea

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 lies on the barren and deeply dissected Dhra‘ Plain, at the south-east corner of the Dead Sea in Jordan. However, in its heyday (9,200 - 8,300 cal BC) during the early Holocene, the settlement lay in a more congenial setting beside the alluvial fan of the ancestral Wadi adh-Dhra‘. Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 2 was excavated by a La Trobe University team between 1999 and 2002.  As one of the final PPNA sites in the southern Levant... Read more about The Pre-pottery Neolithic A Site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 and the Dawn of Farming by the Dead Sea