Journal
ANTIQUITY
Volume 85, Issue 328, Pages 350-364Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00067806
Keywords
Levant; Wadi Faynan; Neolithic; PPNA; monumentality; communal structures; complexity
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- AHRC [AH/E006205/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/E006205/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The authors present a new type of communal and monumental structure from the earliest Neolithic in western Asia. A complement to the decorated stone pillars erected at Gobekli Tepe in the north, 'Wadi Faynan 16 Structure O75' in the southern Levant is a ritualised gathering place of a different kind. It serves to define wider western Asia as an arena of social experiment in the tenth millennium BC, one in which community seems to take precedence over economy.
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