CLAR 241:

The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

© 2010 G. Kenneth Sams and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Neolithic Period: Images

Ain Ghazal (Jordan)

*** Clay statuettes, in situ, Aceramic Neolithic Period, ca. 8500-7000.

*** Clay statuettes, in situ, Aceramic Neloithic Period, ca. 8500-7000.

*** Human skulls with shell-inlaid eyes and a burial, Aceramic Neolithic Period, ca. 8500-7000.

 

Çatal Höyük (Anatolia)

*** Excavation plan and section showing superposed levels.

*** Reconstructed views of Level VI and a typical house, ca 6000.

*** Level VIb plan, ca. 6000.

*** Reconstructed view of Level VI house ("shrine") with wall-relief figure of female giving birth.

*** Reconstructed view of Level VI house ("shrine"), ca. 6000, with horns set into pedestals.

*** Excavation view of actual horns set into a pedestal, Level VI.

*** Reconstruction of "Vulture Shrine," Level III, first half 6th millennium.

*** Drawing of wall painting of vulture and corpses, Level VII, late 7th millennium.

*** Grave beneath floor of house.

*** Wall relief from a Level VI house ("shrine") showing a pair of leopards, late 7th millennium.

*** Detail of leopards in preceding image.

*** Drawing of wall painting from Level VII showing a townscape(?) and a volcano(?) (Hasan Dag?) in the background, late 7th millennium.

*** Wall painting showing a bull hunt, Level V, early 6th millennium.

*** Wall painting, hunter(?) wearing leopard skin, Level III, first half of 6th millennium.

*** Wall painting, detail of another hunter(?), Level III, first half of 6th millennium.

*** Detail of wall painting with representation of a flat-woven rug ("kilim").

*** Stone relief showing three figures in an apparent "sacred marriage" ("hieros gamos"), from house ("shrine") in Level VI, ca. 6000.

*** Terracotta enthroned steatopygous female giving birth, Level II, first half 6th millennium.

*** Terracotta steatopygous female.

*** Wooden vessels, mostly from burials in Level VI, ca. 6000.

 

Jericho (Palestine)

*** Restored view of the Proto-Neolithic settlement, early 9th millennium.

*** Stone tower in the Proto-Neolithic defenses, early 9th millennium.

*** Plastered human skull shown in situ in a house burial of the Aceramic Neolithic Period, late 9th-8th millennium.

*** Same plastered skull as preceding, after removal and cleaning; eyes inlaid with shells.

*** Selection of flint blades.

 

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