Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic A denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 10,800 years ago, that is, 10,000–8800 BCE. A
The ruins of Göbekli Tepe, c. 9,000 BCE
Evolution of temperatures in the Post-Glacial period according to Greenland ice cores. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic corresponds to the period of warming of the Holocene.
Reliefs of animals, Göbekli Tepe Layer III (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A), c. 9000 BCE.
The Tower of Jericho was built at the end of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, c. 8000 BCE.
Natufian culture
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The Natufian culture is an archaeological culture of the late Epipalaeolithic Near East in West Asia from 15,000–11,500 Before Present. The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
…of Jericho, State of Palestine. During this time, pottery was not yet in use. They precede the ceramic Neolithic Yarmukian culture. PPNA succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East. PPNA archaeological sites are much larger than those of the preceding Natufian hunter-gatherer culture, and contain…
Dorothy Garrod (centre) discovered the Natufian culture in 1928
Mortars from Natufian Culture, grinding stones from Neolithic pre-pottery phase (Dagon Museum)
The Ain Sakhri lovers, from Ain Sakhri, near Bethleem (British Museum: 1958,1007.1 )