Knowra Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Pre-Pottery Neolithic B was a Near Eastern Neolithic period, roughly 8800–6500 BCE, marked by farming communities, domesticated plants and animals, and mudbrick buildings.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic : A Near Eastern Neolithic era before pottery became common, conventionally divided into Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B. The broader archaeological period whose later phase is Pre-Pottery Neolithic B.
Jericho : An ancient settlement near the Jordan River, occupied from the Epipaleolithic and among the earliest large, continuously inhabited sites. Its PPNB occupation includes substantial architecture and communal structures.
Neolithic architecture : The built forms and construction practices of Neolithic communities, from domestic houses to communal structures. PPNB settlements developed durable houses and organized built environments.
Fertile Crescent : A crescent-shaped region of Southwest Asia where early farming and animal domestication developed. Much of the PPNB record lies within this region.
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A : The earlier Near Eastern Neolithic phase, preceding Pre-Pottery Neolithic B and characterized by smaller settlements and early cultivation. Its architecture and economies show what changed before the B phase.
Ain Ghazal : A large Neolithic settlement in present-day Jordan, occupied from about 7250 to 5000 BCE. Its PPNB levels reveal a large community and distinctive plaster statues.
Plaster : A coating made by applying a workable mixture that hardens on walls, floors, or objects. PPNB builders used lime and gypsum plasters for floors, walls, and modeled forms.
Göbekli Tepe : A monumental early Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey, built before pottery and associated with hunter-gatherer communities. Its monumental buildings complicate simple accounts of farming preceding social complexity.
Neolithic Revolution : The long transition in which human societies increasingly adopted farming, animal husbandry, and settled life. PPNB belongs to this broader, uneven transformation.
Çayönü : A Neolithic settlement in southeastern Anatolia with a long sequence of changing architecture and subsistence. Its early farming evidence illuminates regional PPNB lifeways.
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