#neolithic farming

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Previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco discovered: North Africa's role in Mediterranean prehistory

Archaeological fieldwork in Morocco has discovered the earliest previously unknown farming society from a poorly understood period of northw

This is wonderful! We seem to always be pushing back on the 'earliest' of things. The world was a complicated mess. Love it.

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Pottery Neolithic: this period witnessed the advent of a full-blown Neolithic farming culture across the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond, with a full range of pottery creations to complement it.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Pottery Neolithic

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Qaraoun Culture: almost outside of the Neolithic progression, the Qaraoun culture is largely undated, with evidence for it having been discovered around the site of the Canaanite city of Sarepta (now in Lebanon).

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Qaraoun

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Yarmukian Culture: this derives its name from the River Yarmuk, in ancient Syria, but artefacts have also been found to the immediate south, in the Megiddo of the period around 6000 BC.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Yarmukian

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Fikirtepe Culture: this was an early copper-using culture in the north-eastern corner of Anatolia (today's Turkey), undoubtedly on the migrant route into Europe's Neolithic farmer territories in the Balkans.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Fikirtepe

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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B: the PPNB marked the arrival of full agricultural domestication in the Fertile Crescent, a period which lasts longer than its predecessor and is divided by archaeologists into early, middle, and late phases.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

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Mureybetian Culture: the Mureybetian appeared as a sub-phase or regional variant of the PPNA on the west bank of the Euphrates (in today's Raqqa governorate of northern Syria), on a settlement mound or tell which is known as Mureybet.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Mureybetian

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Khiamian Culture: this succeeded the Natufian as a sedentary culture which emerged as the farming revolution was gradually taking hold, alongside the highly-localised Shepherd Neolithic culture.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Khiamian

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