Around 9,000 years ago, in a village northwest of Jerusalem, someone stacked chunks of dolomite rock into a fire hot enough ...
A new study reveals the oldest known use of dolomitic lime dates to the Neolithic period, pushing back its origins by nearly ...
About 10,000 years ago, long before the Romans set foot in the Holy Land, the inhabitants of the Neolithic settlement of ...
Excavations from 2015 to 2021 on the ancient site of Motza, just west of Jerusalem, revealed a sprawling settlement with some ...
New discoveries at Göbekli Tepe’s enigmatic sister site, Karahan Tepe, reveal a major clue to how these ancient Neolithic ...
Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium b.c. This article reports on ...
Bottomless stone bowl, plate, and batons, and small bowl containing animal figurines with heads in limestone rings (left) and stone animal figurines (right) Since the first stone structures were ...
Observing pottery -- Terminology -- The Ceramotheca -- Chronology -- Geological and physical aspects of Jordan -- Before the invention of ceramics -- The Palaeolithic Period (from 1,200,000 to 17,000 ...