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Location

  • Jordan, Amman
  • geo:31.987955,35.976646

Period or year

  • -6750~ / unknown

Classification

  • building
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Ain Ghazal, Cache of Statues I

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The most interesting discovery at Ain Ghazal were the caches of plaster statues intentionally buried beneath the floor of long-abandoned houses. According carbon c-14 this deposists was placed ca 6,750 +/- 80 BC.

Sources:

  1. Kathryn W. Tubb, The statues of 'Ain Ghazal: discovery, recovery and reconstruction, Archaeology International. 5 2001, pp. 47-50 - http://www.ai-journal.com/articles/abstract/10.5334/ai.0514/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ain_Ghazal_Statueshttps://web.archive.org/web/20070221174052/http://menic.utexas.edu/ghazal/
  3. Keffie Feldman, Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures, in: Brown.edu. (n.d.). Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures. [online] Available at: https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/architecturebodyperformance/326.html [Accessed 17 Dec. 2015].

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-01-08) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/33112
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Ain Ghazal, Cache of Statues I. https://vici.org/vici/33112, accessed 2026-11-10.