Wadi Hammeh 27:

Edwards, Phillip C.; Bocquentin, Fanny; Colledge, Sue; Edwards, Yvonne H.; Dosseur, Gaëlle Le; Martin, Louise; Stanin, Zvonkica; Webb, John G.

doi:10.2307/j.ctv8bt33h.26

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“…These open-air settlements remained unconstrained by the limits of natural shelters and grew to larger sizes up to 0.5 ha in area, with cultural deposits accumulating up to several metres in thickness. Wadi Hammeh 27 (Edwards 2013b; Edwards et al 2013b) is the earliest and only the third major, open-air Early Natufian base-camp excavated extensively in the Mediterranean region of the southern Levant over the past 70 years (after Mallaha and Jericho). The site yielded four major occupational phases, comprising three sets of superimposed housing structures (Phases 1–3) overlying a phase with burials dug into bedrock (Phase 4).…”

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“…Around 12,500 cal. bc , base-camp sites were founded in open-air locations, in the Jordan Valley at Wadi Hammeh 27 (Edwards et al 2013b) and in the Galilee region shortly afterwards at ‘Ain Mallaha (Valla et al 2007, 146). At around the same time, it is now apparent that a settlement of similar complexity had emerged at Shubayqa 1 in northeast Jordan (Richter et al .…”

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The Natural Inspiration for Natufian Art: Cases from Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan

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The likelihood that Palaeolithic artisans sometimes used natural objects as models for their image-making has long been suggested, yet well-contextualized and stratified examples have remained rare. This study examines a series of natural and fabricated items from the Natufian settlement of Wadi Hammeh 27 in Jordan (12,000–12,500 cal. bc) to propose that the site occupants collected a variety of found objects such as fossils, unusually shaped stones and animal bones, which they utilized as templates in the production of geometric art pieces. Natural and fabricated objects were woven into complex schemes of relation by Natufian artisans. Existing patterns were copied and applied to a variety of representational images. Found objects were sometimes subtly modified, whereas at other times they were transformed into finished artefacts. The scute pattern on the tortoise carapace, in particular, appears to have formed the basis of important ritual beliefs across the Natufian culture area. At Wadi Hammeh 27, it was evoked in various media and at various scales to form interrelating tableaux of representation.

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The Natural Inspiration for Natufian Art: Cases from Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan

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Things and the Slow Neolithic: the Middle Eastern Transformation

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Faunal turnover in the Azraq Basin, eastern Jordan 28,000 to 9000 cal yr BP, signalling climate change and human impact

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Recent zooarchaeological analyses of game exploitation in the Epipalaeolithic of the Southern Levant identify a decline in large game in the Natufian, with corresponding increase in small prey, interpreted as hunting pressure driven by population expansion. To date, studies focus on the Mediterranean zone. This paper adopts similar approaches to examine Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic faunal data from 16 sites in the steppic Jordanian Azraq Basin. Results here reveal very different trends. Large game, mainly equids, fluctuate throughout the Epipalaeolithic, due to climatic conditions and available water/vegetation. Cattle thrive in the Azraq oasis, showing no decline in the Late Epipalaeolithic. Gazelle exploitation is predominant and sustainable throughout the Epipalaeolithic, even at Kharaneh IV and Wadi Jilat 6 ‘megasites’. However, PPNB assemblages from the limestone steppe show intensive game exploitation resulting from longer-stay settlement. The focused gazelle-hunting camp at Dhuweila in the basalt desert also shows pressure from indiscriminate culling impacting herd demography, interpreted as providing meat for onwards exchange. Human impacts on steppe fauna appear both local and in many cases short-term, unlike the large-game suppression reported from west of the Rift Valley. Resource pressures and game over-kill, whether population-driven or otherwise, are not currently apparent east of the Jordan River.

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Wadi Hammeh 27:

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The Natural Inspiration for Natufian Art: Cases from Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan

The Natural Inspiration for Natufian Art: Cases from Wadi Hammeh 27, Jordan

Things and the Slow Neolithic: the Middle Eastern Transformation

Faunal turnover in the Azraq Basin, eastern Jordan 28,000 to 9000 cal yr BP, signalling climate change and human impact

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