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AMMAN — Wadi Faynan, located 250 kilometres southwest of Amman, was well known in ancient times for its copper ore.“The earliest evidence for copper exploitation in Wadi Faynan is at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C [PPN] period, around 7,200 BC to 6,250 BC, when Faynan copper ore was fashioned into beads and also crushed into a colour pigment used to decorate some of
AMMAN — Wadi Faynan, located 250 kilometres southwest of Amman, was well known in ancient times for its copper ore.“The earliest evidence for copper exploitation in Wadi Faynan is at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic C [PPN] period, around 7,200 BC to 6,250 BC, when Faynan copper ore was fashioned into beads and also crushed into a colour pigment used to decorate some of
A catastrophic tsunami occurred sometimes between 7,910 and 7,290 BCE with an extreme 16 m (52.5 feet) wave height and 1.5-3.5 km (0.93-2.2 mile) run-up on the Carmel coast of Israel, according to new research published in the journal PLoS ONE. The archaeological site of Tel Dor, Israel. Image credit: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Tsunami events in antiquity had a profound influence on coastal societies,” said lead author Dr. Gilad Shtienberg from the Department of Anthropology in the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at the University of California, San ...