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Shubayqa, a site located some 130 kilometres northeast of Amman, represents a hunter-gatherer spot and as such it draws attention of scholarly teams. An

AMMAN - During the filed season in 1996 at Ain Ghazal on the north-eastern outskirts of Amman, the archaeological team discovered a rectangular Late

AMMAN — The settlement at Ain Ghazal Site is one of the largest Neolithic settlements known in the Near East and is situated on the western edge of the Wadi Zarqa, which, although dry today, was a permanent stream from at least late Pleistocene and early Holocene times until the mid-1950’s. Ain Ghazal is now part of north-eastern Amman.

AMMAN — The Neolithic in the Levant was characterised by the first sedentary farming communities in the world and the transition from hunting-gathering to farming took place between 18,000BC and 9.500BC. Researchers also studied funerary practices of that period and drew some interesting conclusions.After death, adults and children were buried without grave goods in individual

Hunter — gatherers in the southern Levant based their social identity on small groups of consanguineal (blood-related) and affinal( through marriage) members.“With the emergence of sedentism, identity of group intensified, concentrating on unilineal identity tied to a territory,” said Professor Emeritus Gary Rollefson from Whitman College.