Shubayqa 6: a new Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement in
               north-east Jordan

Richter, Tobias; Arranz‐Otaegui, Amaia; Bocaege, Emmy; Estrup, Erin; Martinez-Gallardo, Cesar; Pantos, George Alexis; Pedersen, Patrick; Sæhle, Ingeborg; Yeomans, Lisa

doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.182

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“…To be sure, both periods were more diverse than previously assumed; their demarcation not always as sharp as presumed. A Natufian type of mobility linked to stone structures may have been maintained in arid margins of the PPNA (such as Shubayqa in the Black Desert: Richter et al 2016; Wadi Tumbaq in central Syria: Abbès 2015; or the Abu Madi and Epi-Harifian complexes of Sinaï and Neguev: Bar-Yosef 1984;Borrell and Vardi 2022), while some major PPNA settlements may have been preceded by the light shelters of roaming Natufians (Jericho: Kenyon 1981;or Mureybet: Ibáñez 2008: 647). However, if one focuses on the spatial praxis at play in the logic of aggregation, on the modalities rather than the degree of permanence, and on the relation with ongoing motion, it is nevertheless useful to repolarize the transformation around the novelty that the laborious adoption of earth constituted at the beginning of the PPNA.…”

Section: On the Precedence Of Stonesmentioning

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Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East

Hadad

2024

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Revivals of public interest in the Neolithic Near East have generally coincided with the emergence of powerful imagery, such as the discovery of Çatalhöyük’s striking wall paintings in the 1960s. Now, sixty years later, the sculptures of Göbekli Tepe are ensuring the period’s widespread appeal. The capacity of these well-preserved buildings to carry such imagery until today has made them, in turn, an image of the supposed achievements of Neolithic sedentism. But the popularity of these images depends on their decontextualization. This modernist notion that permanent architecture represents the conquest of spatial forms over time is in contradiction with the early Neolithic experience of settled life, which had more to do with the unstable duration of places than with an emancipation from motion. This essay explores the Neolithic preference for earth architecture over more stable construction materials such as stone, its influence on visual culture, and how it contributed to building new living relations to the inhabited landscape. Instead of the sense of fixity and completeness that we, moderns, desperately seek in plans, reconstructions, and monumentality, it is the very transience, repetitiveness, and cumulativeness of earth that determined the transformations of the archaeological record. In other words, rhythms are key to understanding Neolithic sedentism in ways that differ wildly from the static images we have substituted for it.

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Section: On the Precedence Of Stonesmentioning

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Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East

Hadad

2024

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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“…Two sites on the edge of the Qa' Shubayqa, Shubayqa 1 and 6 (Figure 3) (Richter et al, 2012;Richter et al, 2014;Richter et al, 2016a;Richter et al, 2016b;Richter et al, 2017) have yielded abundant evidence of waterfowl remains (Yeomans & Richter, 2018;Yeomans, 2021), demonstrating the longterm presence of a wetland. At Shubayqa 1, the Early and Late Natufian occupation (14,400-14,100 cal BP and 13,300-13,100 cal BP) mainly occurs within the wet and warm Bølling-Allerød interstadial (14,700-12,900 cal BP).…”

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Waterfowl eggshell refines palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and supports multi-species niche construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Levant

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Codlin²,

Mazzucato³

et al. 2023

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Utilising multiple lines of evidence for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction improves our understanding of the past landscapes in which human populations interacted with other species. Illuminating such processes is key for a nuanced understanding of fundamental transitions in human history, such as the shift from hunting and gathering to farming, which move beyond simple deterministic interpretations of climate-driven innovation. Avifaunal remains can provide detailed indications of complex multi-species interactions at the local scale. They allow us to infer relationships between human and non-human animals, but also to reconstruct their niche, because many bird species are sensitive to specific ecological conditions and will often relocate and change their breeding patterns. In this paper, we illustrate how novel evidence that waterfowl reproduced at Levantine wetlands, which we obtained through biomolecular archaeology, as well as modern ornithological data, can reveal conditions of wetlands that are conducive for breeding waterfowl. By understanding the interplay between wetland cover cycles and waterfowl ecology, we argue that human modifications to the environment would have promoted wetland productivity inviting waterfowl to remain year-round. Within this landscape of "mutual ecologies", the feedback resulting from the agency of all species is involved in the construction of the human niche.

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“…12 100–11 900 cal BP) from a small test trench suggests that limited occupation continued into the Younger Dryas but minimal animal bone was recovered from this area. Excavations continue at Shubayqa 6 but several PPNA structures have been excavated and, on the basis of a test trench, the sequence appears to extend back to the Late Natufian [ 34 – 36 ]. Five AMS dates span the timeframe 12 370–10 590 cal BP (68.2% probability) placing the main sequence within the PPNA although the lithic assemblage suggests reoccupation in the EPPNB.…”

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Expansion of the known distribution of Asiatic mouflon ( Ovis orientalis ) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant

2017

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Wild sheep (Ovis orientalis) bones recovered from the Natufian site of Shubayqa 1 demonstrate a wider distribution of mouflon in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant than previously known. Early Epipalaeolithic sites are common in the limestone steppe region of eastern Jordan but have yielded only a handful of caprine bones that cannot be identified to species level and few faunal remains from excavated Late Epipalaeolithic sites have been reported. Analysis of animal bone from Shubayqa 1 suggests a significant population of wild sheep could be found concentrated in the basalt desert environment of eastern Jordan during the Late Pleistocene, especially where higher rainfall over the Jebel Druze provided more water. A population of wild sheep was still present in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A when the nearby site of Shubayqa 6 was occupied. Hunting of diverse, locally available resources including wild sheep at the end of the Pleistocene illustrates the flexible and adaptive exploitation strategies that hunter-forager groups engaged in. This provides further evidence to the increasing body of data showing the creative and opportunistic approach of terminal Pleistocene groups allowing continued occupation even in more marginal environments in a period of environmental change.

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Shubayqa 6: a new Late Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A settlement in north-east Jordan

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East

Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East

Waterfowl eggshell refines palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and supports multi-species niche construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Levant

Expansion of the known distribution of Asiatic mouflon ( Ovis orientalis ) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant

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