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ʿAin Ghazal (Arabic: عين غزال, romanized: ʿayn ġazāl) is a Neolithic archaeological site located in metropolitan Amman, Jordan, about 2 km (1.24 mi) north-west of Amman Civil Airport. The site is remarkable for being the place where the ʿAin Ghazal statues were found, which are among the oldest large-sized statues ever discovered.
Oct 29, 2023 · The site of ‘Ain Ghazal was discovered in 1974 by developers who were building a road to link Amman to the neighboring city of Zarqa. Knowing they had found something important, the site was protected and earmarked for later excavation.
- Greg Beyer
The Early Neolithic community of 'Ain mercial Ghazal activity revealed that houses extended ("Spring of the Gazelle") is located on the across west a distance of 600 m north to south, and bank of the Wadi Zarqa, the longest drainage concentrated sys- distributions of flint artifacts on the tem in highland Jordan.
'Ain Ghazal, an archeological site located on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, is one of the largest early villages known in the Near East. The site dates to the Neolithic period, during...
Jan 1, 2016 · ’Ain Ghazal (“Spring of the Gazelles”) is a major Neolithic settlement located near Amman in northwestern Jordan. The site is situated on footslopes and toeslopes in the Zarqa River valley, the second largest tributary of the Jordan River.
Topographically and geographically, the site of 'Ain Ghazal sits at a nexus of a heavily dissected range of jebels (low mountains, in this case) to the north, west, and south and more open rolling hills and plains to the northeast and east.
The "main" site is situated on Abu Hureyra, in northern Syria, was more than 11 ha in area, and Beisamoun and Khirbet Sheikh 'Ali, both in northern Palestine, were each about 10 ha in size (see Rollefson 1987 for other site sizes and references).
