Gary Rollefson […] and Zeidan Kafafi […] were principal investigators […] ‘Ain Ghazal was first occupied around 7200 BC in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and is one of the largest Neolithic sites in the Levant. Many animal and human figurines were recovered, but what remains the most extraordinary discovery there are the human statues and busts found in two caches: twenty-five in a group found in 1983 and dated to around 6750 B.C. and at least another ten from a slightly later cache discovered in 1985; this one contained three busts with two heads.
Format
35mm slide
Place
Amman (Jordan)
Identifier
RK_J_2_S_58_044
Archaeological Site
Ain Ghazal
Tag
archaeological sites
excavations (archaeology)
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