Wadi Hammeh 27, near Pella in Jordan, is an Early Natufian open-air settlement dated to c. 12,000–12,500 cal BC — roughly 14,000–14,500 years ago and about 2,500–3,000 years older than Karahan Tepe. Its large curvilinear stone huts span four occupation phases, with structures repeatedly rebuilt. Philip C. Edwards’s 2013 Brill monograph, “Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan,” is 344 pages, not 400+. Scholars describe the site as one of the Levant’s largest and most complex pre-Neolithic settlements and as an Early Natufian open-air “base-camp” type site associated with the transition to later sedentary Neolithic communities.
Wadi Hammeh 27: early Natufian settlement near Pella, Jordan, dated to c. 12,000–12,500 BC
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- Wadi Hammeh 27 is an Early Natufian open-air settlement near Pella, on the eastern margins of Jordan’s central Jordan Valley.
- It is dated to c. 12,000–12,500 cal BC — roughly 14,000–14,500 years ago — and predates Karahan Tepe by about 2,500–3,000 years.
- The site is described as one of the largest and most complex pre-Neolithic settlements in the Levant.
- Philip C. Edwards published the 2013 Brill monograph “Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan”; the book is 344 pages, not 400+.
- Scholars describe it as an Early Natufian open-air “base-camp” type settlement associated with the transition toward later sedentary Neolithic communities.
- Its large curvilinear stone huts span four occupation phases, with structures rebuilt in later phases.
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The Origins of a Natufian 'Anomalous Giant'publication.doa.gov.jo
Wādī Ḥammeh 27 is an Early Natufian site in northwestern Jordan, dating from. 12,000 to 12,500 cal BC (Edwards 2013a). It is representative of the first large, ...
Wadi Hammeh 27: An Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in ...whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu
Wadi Hammeh 27 is only the third example of the large Natufian base-camp to be in the Mediterranean zone of the southern Levant, and is the only one of its ...
Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in ...researchgate.net
Wadi Hammeh 27 and Its Environs. Wadi Hammeh 27 in the Context of Previous Natufian Research . Early Reports and Surveys of Wadi al-Hammeh . The Pella Region: ...
The Natufian human skeletal remains from Wadi Hammeh ...persee.fr
by SG Webb · 2002 · Cited by 44 — The human skeletal remains from the Natufian site of Wadi Hammeh 27 represent a hunter-gatherer people who lived in the area around 1 2 000 BP.
Wadi Hammeh 27en.wikipedia.org
Wadi Hammeh 27 is a Late Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Pella, Jordan. It consists of the remains of a large settlement dating to the Early Natufian ...
(PDF) Wadi hammeh 27: An open-air 'base-camp' on the ...researchgate.net
Wadi Hammeh 27 remains as only the third open- air Natufian base-camp unearthed in the Mediter- ranean region of the southern Levant. The site is Evron 1991:95 ...
Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in ...brill.com
The 14,000-year-old settlement of Wadi Hammeh 27 is one of the most spectacular sites of its kind, featuring the largest, most complex pre-Neolithic ...
NATUFIAN SETTLEMENT IN WADI AL-HAMMEHjstor.org
by PC EDWARDS · 1988 · Cited by 20 — Wadi Hammeh 27 is an Early Natufian residential settlement, dated ca. 12,000 b.p., located on the eastern margins of the central Jordan Valley.
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