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🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Khashabiyeh chert-ridge hunters
Abu Khashaba extension: 6 chert pavement kites herringbone 3.8 km south of Khashabiyeh core.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze III (3600–2000 BCE; peak EB II–III 3100–2500 BCE) · Faynan Early Bronze (Levantine copper culture) → EB III urban
Wadi Faynan Early Bronze copper factory — 12 ha with furnace strata and 10 t slag mounds.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze · Badia Late Neolithic with EB reuse
Maitland west slope: 4 kites descending 45-m mesa scarp from Maitland's historic fort hill.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Early Natufian (14,500–13,000 BP) · Early Natufian (Levant)
Jordan Valley Early Natufian base camp with slab floors and dentalium burial arrays.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPN to Late Neolithic · PPNB / Yarmoukian
32 PPNB–Late Neolithic limestone kites (8000–4500 BCE) on Wadi Arabilah scarp.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Early Natufian to MPPNB (14,600–9000 BP) · Natufian → PPNA → PPNB (Levantine Badia)
Harra playa Natufian village that produced world's earliest bread (14,400 BP).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic
Wisad north ridge: 5 radial kites on 45-m hill summit above Black Desert hamada.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite
Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Azraq depression hunters
Wadi al-Ghadf depression: 4 single-arm kites using 8-m natural caliche bluff as wall.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Badia Chalcolithic with Azraq Jawa interaction
Maitland north plain: 6 small family-size kites on Azraq gravel plain 6 km north of mesa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late PPN to Late Neolithic · PPN / Azraq pastoralists
18 wetland-margin kites (7000–5000 BCE) around Azraq Qa salt flat.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Early to Late Natufian (13,500–11,500 BP) · Natufian
Natufian rockshelter with earliest escarpment plant cultivation and cult basin prefiguring PPN shrines.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Corridor Badia inter-site coordination
Qattafi–Harrat link: 6 degraded dispersed kites forming 8 km stepping-stone corridor between mega-sites.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Proto-Jawa Ghassulian-Chalcolithic
120-m south spillway with ogee crest and riprap of main Jawa dam — earliest weir hydraulics.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c.11600–10200 cal BP) · PPNA (Natufian → PPNB transition)
PPNA megasite (c.11.6–10.2 ka, Structure O75 20 m amphitheatre, 40 pithouses) at Faynan oasis.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze · Badia Late Neolithic–EBA onager hunters
Wadi Rashid hamada: 5 low-wall kites on open pavement with deep 2.4 m onager pits.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)
PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Mamluk; Iron II and Byzantine peaks · EB dolmen-builders → Iron Moab/Ammon → Nabataean → Roman/Byzantine Esbus → Mamluk
Biblical Heshbon on Dead Sea escarpment — Iron Moabite/Ammonite town to Hasmonaean, Roman Esbus, Byzantine mosaics and Mamluk farm, 15 m within 150×110 m mound.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to PPNA (c.15,000–11,000 BP) · Kebaran → Natufian → PPNA
Jordan Valley Natufian–PPNA rock-shelter cluster (c.15–11 ka, Kebaran→Natufian hamster, early barley).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic – Roman (peaks: Chalcolithic, Iron Age–Roman Edom/Phaino) · Chalcolithic miners to Edomite–Nabataean–Roman (Phaino)
30-km copper valley (4500 BCE–400 CE) — mines, slag heaps and Roman Phaino mining town.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Qattafi east arm: 6 mesa-lip kites driving gazelles off 40-m basalt mesa to playa.
