Following the ASPRO chronology, the Neolithic started in around 10,200 BC in the Levant, arising from the Natufian culture, when pioneering use of wild cereals evolved into early farming.The Natufian period or "proto-Neolithic" lasted from 12,500 to 9,500 BC, and is taken to overlap with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of 10,200–8800 BC.As the Natufians had become …

Mureybet (Arabic: مريبط, romanized: muribit, lit. 'covered') is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.The site was excavated between 1964 and 1974 and has since disappeared under the rising waters of Lake Assad.Mureybet was occupied between 10,200 and 8,000 BC and is the eponymous type site …

Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [gœbecˈli teˈpe], "Potbelly Hill"; known as Girê Mirazan or Xirabreşkê in Kurdish) is a Neolithic archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE, the site comprises a number of large circular structures supported by massive stone pillars – the world's oldest known megaliths.

Lower Mesopotamia is the core of the Uruk period culture and the region seems to have been the cultural centre of the time because this is where the principal monuments are found and the most obvious traces of an urban society with state institutions developing in the second half of the 4th millennium BC, the first system of writing, and it is the material and symbolic culture of this …

Aşıklı Höyük is a settlement mound located nearly 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of Kızılkaya village on the bank of the Melendiz brook, and 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Aksaray, Turkey.Aşıklı Höyük is located in an area covered by the volcanic tuff of central Cappadocia, in Aksaray Province.The archaeological site of Aşıklı Höyük was first settled in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...

Einkorn wheat is one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, alongside emmer wheat (T. dicoccum).Hunter gatherers in the Fertile Crescent may have started harvesting einkorn as early as 30,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence from Syria. Although gathered from the wild for thousands of years, einkorn wheat was first domesticated approximately 10,000 …

Chaldea (/ k æ l ˈ d iː ə /) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. Semitic-speaking, it was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia and briefly came to rule Babylon.

The Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları or Toroslar) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau.The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. It is a part of the Alpide belt in Eurasia

The Samarra culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of northern Mesopotamia, roughly dated to between 5500 and 4800 BCE.It partially overlaps with Hassuna and early Ubaid.Samarran material culture was first recognized during excavations by German Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld at the site of Samarra.Other sites where Samarran material has …

Göbekli Tepe est un site préhistorique occupé aux X e et IX e millénaires av. J.-C., au Néolithique précéramique A et au B [1], [2], situé dans la province de Şanlıurfa, en Turquie, près de la frontière avec la Syrie, à proximité de la ville de Şanlıurfa.. Son occupation comprend deux niveaux. Le niveau III (v. 9600 - 8500 av. J.-C.) comprend un ensemble de structures ...