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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.
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Oct 29, 2023 · A map showing neolithic and Natufian culture settlements, via ResearchGate Human habitation of ‘Ain Ghazal is split (academically) into four periods, identifiable by the changes in culture and practice evident by those who lived at the site.
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May 19, 2021 · ‘Ain Ghazal (hereafter Ain Ghazal) is an archaeological site located in Jordan that dates to the Neolithic period, and flourished from around the 8th to 6th millennium BC. Ain Ghazal was discovered during the 1970s, but only excavated in the following decade.
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Jan 19, 2020 · ‘Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located near Amman, Jordan. It was excavated between 1982 and 1998 by an American-Jordanian team directed by Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wa. and Zeidan Kafafi, the University of Yarmouk at Irbid, 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...
THE SITE The Early Neolithic community of 'Ain Ghazal ("Spring of the Gazelle") is located on the west bank of the Wadi Zarqa, the longest drainage sys-tem in highland Jordan. The Zarqa River is a permanent stream fed by springs in the Amman area and farther downstream. 'Ain Ghazal is one of these permanent freshwater sources, situated
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).
