Vici.org

Umgebung:

Ain Ghazal Amman, Raghadan palace, anthropoid coffinsAmman, Raghadan PalaceAmman, Raghadan palace, anthropoid coffinsAmman, OdeonAmman, OdeonAmman, OdeonAmman, OdeonAmman OdeonAmman OdeonAmman, Forum with odeonAmman, OdeonAmman, Forum, frieze with Greek inscription, detailAmman, Forum, frieze with Greek inscription, detailAmman, ForumAmman, Forum, colonnade with frieze with flowers and Greek inscriptionAmman, ForumAmman, ForumAmman, ForumAmman, Forum, colonnade with friezeAmman, Forum, colonnade with friezeAmman, Forum, frieze with Greek inscriptionAmman, Forum and TheaterAmman, Forum, frieze with Greek inscription, detailAmman, Forum, frieze with Greek inscriptionAmman, TheaterAmman, Theater, Governors seatAmman, Theater, StageAmman, Theater

Lage:

  • Jordanien, Amman
  • geo:31.988001,35.976002
  • Genaue Lage

Period or year:

  • -8300~ / -5000~

Klassification:

  • Bäuerliche Siedlung
  • Sichtbar

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22499

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The settlement at 'Ain Ghazal ("Spring of the Gazelles") near the modern city of Amman was occupied from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (MPPNB ) - ca 8300 - 7550 BC. The settlement plannig a large number of rectangular buildings consisting of few rooms with plastered floors grouped in three districts,  resulted undobtedly from well structured social organisation. The excavations revealed that it was a major art production centre. It was a large settlement of farmers, herders, and hunters and was continuously inhabited from approximately 7 250 – 5 000 BC. Evidence of animal bones at the site indicates that the inhabitants domesticated sheep in the LPPNB, pigs in the PPNC and later cattle. They grew also different crops (lentils, barley, cheakpeas, peas). Their deaths they burried under the floor of house or in a courtyard, but infants.

Sources:

  1. Piotr Bienkowski , Jordan: Crossroads of the Near East in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, Piotr Bienkowski eds., Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, p. 4
  2. Fawzi Zayadine, Sculpture in Ancient Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art ofJordan, ed. Piotr Bienkowski,. Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, pp.31-61
  3. Garry A. Rollefson, Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan) : Ritual and Ceremony, II, Paléorient 12/1, 1986, pp. 45-52
  4. Denise Schmandt-Besserat: “ʿAin Ghazal ‘Monumental’ Figures.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 310, 1998, pp. 1–17.

The settlement at 'Ain Ghazal ("Spring of the Gazelles") near the modern city of Amman was occupied from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (MPPNB ) - ca 8300 - 7550 BC. The settlement plannig a large number of rectangular buildings consisting of few rooms with plastered floors grouped in three districts,  resulted undobtedly from well structured social organisation. The excavations revealed that it was a major art production centre. It was a large settlement of farmers, herders, and hunters and was continuously inhabited from approximately 7 250 – 5 000 BC. Evidence of animal bones at the site indicates that the inhabitants domesticated sheep in the LPPNB, pigs in the PPNC and later cattle. They grew also different crops (lentils, barley, cheakpeas, peas). Their deaths they burried under the floor of house or in a courtyard, but infants.

Sources:

  1. Piotr Bienkowski , Jordan: Crossroads of the Near East in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, Piotr Bienkowski eds., Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, p. 4
  2. Fawzi Zayadine, Sculpture in Ancient Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art ofJordan, ed. Piotr Bienkowski,. Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, pp.31-61
  3. Garry A. Rollefson, Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan) : Ritual and Ceremony, II, Paléorient 12/1, 1986, pp. 45-52
  4. Denise Schmandt-Besserat: “ʿAin Ghazal ‘Monumental’ Figures.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, no. 310, 1998, pp. 1–17.

Relevante Museen

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


In der Nähe

Zeina from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Amos from Ain Ghazal

Ain Ghazal Statue

Ain Ghazal, Cache I

cache of statue.