Wild barley grains, chaff reused in pise walls, fig and pistachio, selectively culled goats — WF16 was a busy hub: fox fur, raptor feathers and talons for ornament, malachite worked into greenstone beads, Red Sea and Mediterranean shells for beads, and evidence of annual gatherings 🔹
Cultivation of wild barley, selective goat herding and malachite bead working at WF16
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Key facts
- Storage buildings, numerous pestles and mortars, and grains of wild plants including barley indicate cultivation of wild plants
- Chaff was used in the manufacture of pise wall material
- Trees such as fig and pistachio were exploited
- Animal bones include many wild species; the age profile of goat remains indicates selective hunting to manage herds
- Foxes were hunted for fur; raptor bones suggest feathers and talons were used for ornamentation
- Local malachite copper ore was worked into greenstone beads
- Shells were collected from the Red Sea and the Mediterranean for bead production
- Evidence indicates WF16 hosted annual gatherings for the wider landscape, with artistic objects made or discarded on site
- Small stone slabs incised with geometric patterns were found at the settlement
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Lost for words: an extraordinary structure at the early ...nature.com
by S Mithen · 2020 · Cited by 15 — View of WF16 in Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan, looking east towards the Jordanian plateau. Those expectations were soon over-turned in light of ...
Wadi Feynanen.wikipedia.org
Wadi Faynan 16 Excavations edit Archaeological sites in Faynan have been extensively excavated by the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project, WF16, a Pre- ...
Published: WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement ...cbrl.ac.uk
WF16 is located in the spectacular Wadi Faynan area of Southern Jordan. Evaluation of the site was undertaken between 1997 and 2006 with a monograph ...
WF16 Excavations at an Early Neolithic Settlement in ...searchworks.stanford.edu
WF16 is located in the spectacular Wadi Faynan area of southern Jordan. Evaluation of the site was undertaken between 1997 and 2006 with a monograph ...
Case Studies from Wadi Faynan 16 and 'Ain Ghazal, Jordantandfonline.com
by SL Allcock · 2023 · Cited by 1 — Wadi Faynan 16 (WF16), a small early Neolithic settlement, site which eventually developed into a mega-site; one of the earliest PPNA sites in ...
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