🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Wisad Desert Kites (Wisad Pools Black Desert)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPN to Late Neolithic · PPNB / Yarmoukian
32 PPNB–Late Neolithic limestone kites (8000–4500 BCE) on Wadi Arabilah scarp.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late PPNB to Early Pottery Neolithic (7000–6200 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Wadi Rabah (PN)
Late PPNB–Wadi Rabah terrace village tracking Faynan aridity collapse at 7000 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB to Nabataean · PPNB Levantine to Nabataean
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7200–6500 BCE) 5 km north of Petra at Siq al-Barid ('Little Petra'), first excavated by Diana Kirkbride.