Pre-Pottery Neolithic
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The Pre-Pottery Neolithic represents the early Neolithic in the Near East, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 8,500 years ago,. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East, as the domestic
Sculpture of a predatory animal, Göbekli Tepe, circa 9000 BCE
Urfa Man, c. 9000 BCE. Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum.
Karahan Tepe anthropomorphic statue (2.3 meters), naked and holding phallus with both hands.
Footed bowl in granite, Syria, end of 8th Millennium BCE.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to c. 10,800 – c. 8,500 years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC. It was
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
…It is succeeded by the Pottery Neolithic. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic is divided into Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA 10000–8800 BCE) and the following Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB 8800–6500 BCE). These were originally defined by Kathleen Kenyon in the type site of Jericho. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic precedes the ceramic…
Reconstitution of housing in Aşıklı Höyük, modern Turkey
Left side-view of an Ain Ghazal statue from the Archaeological Museum of Amman
The ʿAin Ghazal bicephalous statues, c. 6500 BC.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ain Ghazal statue frontal closeup