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    Ganj Dareh (Persian: تپه گنج دره; "Treasure Valley" in Persian, or "Treasure Valley Hill" if tepe/tappeh (hill) is appended to the name) is a Neolithic...
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  • Upper Euphrates valley in Syria dated to the 10th millennium BCE, and Ganj-i-Dareh Tepe, a site in the Zagros region of Iran dated to the 9th millennium...
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    are those from two sites in the Zagros region of Iran: Tepe Asiab and Ganj-i-Dareh Tepe. Schemandt-Besserat was able to work back in time and saw the same...
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    are those from two sites in the Zagros region of Iran: Tepe Asiab and Ganj-i-Dareh Tepe. The Mesopotamian civilization emerged during the period 3700–2900...
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    reported from early to middle Neolithic sites in the region, including Ganj Dareh and the nearby Sarab, Asiab about 60km northeast, and Jarmo, in Iraq,...
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    the Fertile Crescent, there is evidence of settlements at Mureybet and Ganj Dareh from around 8500 BC. Towards the end of the millennium, by 8200 BC, the...
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  • of Bahram Ganj Dareh Ganj Par Godin Tepe Haft Tepe Hajji Firuz Tepe Kuzaran Marlik Noushijan Rahmatabad Mound Salaleh Shahr-e Sukhteh Tall-i Bakun Tepe...
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    also Tepe Abdul Hosein in Luristan. All three have similar stone tools. Ganj Dareh in Luristan (seen on the map), also similar, is even somewhat older than...
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    time between 8,000 and 6,800 BC. Still the material culture of Tappeh Ganj Dareh and Tappeh Abdul Hosein does not include any pottery. Thus this period...
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  • Amratian culture (redirect from Naqada I)
    The Amratian culture, also called Naqada I, was an archaeological culture of prehistoric Upper Egypt. It lasted approximately from 4000 to 3500 BC. The...
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    (1963) The crown jewels of Iran (1965) Brick and Mirror (1963) Asrar ganj-e dareh-ye jenni (1974, aka The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries) "گذري بر زندگي...
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    as Tepe Guran, Tepe Sarab, and Ganj Dareh. Jeitun culture may have begun prior to 7000 BC, judging by the age of Sang-i Chakmak, the earliest settlement...
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    Khaydalu Kermanshah Isfahan (Aspadana) Tabriz Shahdad Marlik Chogha Bonut Ganj Dareh Ali Kosh Geoy Tepe Baba Jan Tepe Shah Tepe Hajji Firuz Tepe Kul Tepe Shir...
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    vessels and modelled human and animal terracotta figurines were produced at Ganj Dareh, also in western Iran. There are also 10,000-year-old human and animal...
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    Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), 13.9% from ancestry related to Neolithic Iranians of Ganj Dareh (or also Caucasus-related ancestry), 10.6% from the Bronze Age Western...
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    populations on the Iranian plateau, such as Neolithic specimens found in Ganj Dareh. The CHG display higher genetic affinities to European and Anatolian groups...
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    many Neolithic sites, of which the most well-known are Ganj Dareh, Sarab, and Asiab. At Ganj Dareh, the earliest evidence for goat domestication have been...
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    vessels and modelled human and animal terracotta figurines were produced at Ganj Dareh, also in western Iran. There are also 10,000-year-old human and animal...
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    Romuald; Nelson, Kit (eds.), In Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara, vol. I, The archaeology of Nabta Playa, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, pp. 489–502...
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  • (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras Jarmo Ganj Dareh Chia Jani Ali Kosh Mehrgarh I 6500 Neolithic Europe Franchthi Sesklo Pre-Pottery Neolithic...
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    site consists of four prehistoric mounds that are numbered Tell Sabi Abyad I to IV. Extensive excavations showed that these sites were inhabited already...
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    of domesticated goats dating 10,000 years Before Present are found in Ganj Dareh in Iran. Goat remains have been found at archaeological sites in Jericho...
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    10th millennia BCE buildings of Jericho, and the 8th millennia BCE of Ganj Dareh. According to Roman Ghirshman, the first evidence of humans using a form...
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    Age. In the 6th millennium BC, the aceramic Choirokoitia culture (Neolithic I) was characterized by round houses (tholoi), stone vessels and an economy...
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  • (7500–5500) Hacilar (7000 BC) Tell Sabi Abyad Bouqras Jarmo Ganj Dareh Chia Jani Ali Kosh Mehrgarh I 6500 Neolithic Europe Franchthi Sesklo Pre-Pottery Neolithic...
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    likely from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq or possibly Iran originating near Ganj Dareh. In the earlier levels at Ayn Ghazal there are small ceramic figures that...
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    Antico I (3300-3000 a.C.) [Tell es-Sultan/Jericho on the threshold of the first urbanisation: the village and necropolis of the Early Bronze Age I (3300-3000...
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    evidence, indicators of stress of the Shanidar Proto-Neolithic and the Ganj Dareh early Neolithic human skeletal collections (Thesis). Agelarakis, A (1993)...
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  • Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 664–671, hdl:10261/9794, ISBN 978-1-4073-0330-7 Kuijt I., Palumbo G., Mabry J., Early Neolithic use of upland areas of Wadi El-Yabis :...
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  • closely resemble the shape of the very coarse earthenware of Early Neolithic I from Sesklo, but the paste is significantly different, having a partly-vegetable...
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