Middle Chalcolithic settlement in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea in modern Jordan. The Pontifical Biblical Institute carried the excavations between 1929-1938 on and unearthed rmains of a culture yet unknown. Since these initial discoveries, a high concentration of sites attributed to this period have been identified in the Jordan Valley [ Abu Hamid, Tabaqat Fahl - Pella, Tell al-Shuna, Sahab, Qattar, Abu Snesla and Iraq al-Amir].
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