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🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Ghassulian–Early Bronze IA (Proto-Jawa)
Eastern 72-m basalt dam and canal feeding Jawa proto-city — earliest desert irrigation.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (3500 – 3000 BCE) · Proto-urban pastoralist Jawa (Jordanian black desert)
West pool of world's earliest 3500 BCE basalt dam network 80 m serving 3,000 desert inhabitants.