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    Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) denotes the first stage of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, in early Levantine and Anatolian Neolithic culture, dating to c. 12...
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    Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to c. 10...
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    The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent, dating to c. 12...
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    in the Levant (e.g. Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards. Neolithic cultures are also attested...
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    Late Neolithic, also known as the Ceramic Neolithic or Pottery Neolithic, is the final part of the Neolithic period, following on from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic...
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    tools, weapons and other artifacts. The spread of the Neolithic from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Near East to Europe was first studied quantitatively...
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    Tell Qaramel (category Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
    the late 1970s found evidence of settlement at the site from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period through to the Hellenistic period. The later phases of...
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    The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German...
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    southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10,000 BC, initially in the Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there...
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    Urfa Man (category Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
    southeast of modern Turkey. It is dated c. 9000 BC to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and was considered as "the oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture...
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    industry to the Epipaleolithic or Pre-Pottery Neolithic as it is evidently not Paleolithic, Mesolithic or even Pottery Neolithic. The presence of these animals...
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    divided the Neolithic period of Greek history into six phases: Pre-Pottery, Early Neolithic, Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic I, Late Neolithic II and Final...
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    Göbekli Tepe (category Pre-Pottery Neolithic B)
    inhabited from around 9500 BCE to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It is famous for its large circular structures that contain massive...
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    left a scattering of crescent-shaped microlith tools behind. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A phase at Tell es-Sultan (c. 8500–7500 BCE) saw the emergence of...
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    the area of Upper Mesopotamia only, at the end of the Neolithic during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period, with simple representations of humans and animals...
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  • Sesklo (redirect from Pre-Sesklo)
    of cattle occurred at Argissa as early as c. 6300 BC, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic. The aceramic levels at Sesklo also contained bone fragments of...
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    and the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period (10,000–8,700 BC) saw the introduction of agriculture...
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    current Holocene epoch and is entirely within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) phase of the Early Neolithic. It is impossible to precisely date events that...
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    Hassuna culture (category Neolithic cultures of Asia)
    Pre-Proto-Hassuna refers to the Late Neolithic period in Upper Mesopotamia when the ceramic containers were just being introduced. The pottery vessels were still very...
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  • Thumbnail for Cardium pottery
    Cardium pottery or Cardial ware is a Neolithic decorative style that gets its name from the imprinting of the clay with the heart-shaped shell of the Corculum...
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    that Arabian Neolithic groups also lived in southern Mesopotamia. The Ubaid period was first distinguished on the basis of its painted pottery. Ceramics...
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    divided the Near East Neolithic into phases called Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), from c. 10,000 BC to c. 8800 BC; Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), from c...
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  • divided the Near East Neolithic into phases called Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), from c. 10,000 BC to c. 8800 BC; Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), from c...
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    Samarra culture (category Neolithic cultures of Asia)
    Samarra Tell Shemshara Tell es-Sawwan The Samarra culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of northern Mesopotamia, roughly dated to between...
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  • D J; Pazdur, A; Piotrowske, N (2009). "Chronology of the early pre-pottery neolithic settlement Tell Qaramel, northern Syria, in the light of radiocarbon...
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    Khiamian culture (category Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
    Khiamian culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southwest Asia, dating to the earliest part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), around 9,700...
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  • fishing and navigation in the Strait of Gibraltar crossing. In Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic, the seeds of bitter vetch were found among both the earliest findings...
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    that was in the Neolithic but did not make use of pottery. He called it the Pre-pottery Neolithic, as opposed to the Pottery Neolithic, subsequently often...
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    500–11,500 BP. The Natufian overlaps with the incipient Neolithic Revolution, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. The Early Epipalaeolithic, also known as Kebaran...
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    Jericho (category Pre-Pottery Neolithic A)
    settlement.[citation needed] The Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Jericho is divided in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The first permanent settlement...
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