Ain Ghazal

The Site: In Jordan, near Amman

The period: Continuously inhabited from 7,250- 5,000(?)

The People: Mainly subsistence farmers and hunters

Ain Ghazal near Wadi Zarqa

Image: Rollefson “The Symbols of Ain Ghazal

Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 7,250-6,500 BCE

Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 6,500-6,000 BCE

Pre-Pottery Neolithic C 6,000-5,500 BCE

Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic 5,500-5,000(?) BCE

MPPNB House

Plaster patches are covering sub-floor burials

A MPPNB burial

Photo: G. Rollefson

4 adult male skulls placedFacing SW in a pit in a Courtyard

Skull on Right still retainsPlaster

Photo; G. Rollefson

Three plastered faces from Ain Ghazal. Photo Carol Grissom

Statue from Cache 1 (6,750+/- 80 BCEWoman showing her breasts

Statues from Cache 1. Photos from Ain Ghazal Institute

Statues from Cache 2 (6,570 +/- 110 BCE. Photos from Smithsonian Institute, Washington