Rocky landscape and jordan, a mysterious grave has been discovered the 9000 year old resting place of a young girl who is buried below the floor of a house in a stone age settlement. Ah, the girl was buried alongside valuable, elaborate grave goods which will most likely symbols of a great sense of love and loss. Meet us as humans settled, the dead became part of everyday life. Whole people increasingly related to those they had lost and to their ancestors. Upon the archaeologists who uncovered the remains of the 8 year old child named her shamella. The beautiful ah what happened all those thousands of years ago . And what does the grave reveal about life in barsha . This neolithic settlement with the 26th of june 2018. In barger, the years excavations are drawing to a close and the archaeologists are carefully recovering the final artifacts from the site. It is business as usual, until the team suddenly comes across shimayas grave. They are amazed by their discovery i. The grange was extremely a lateral, fiendish as all the grave goods. Alongside tremulous remains i would say that the necklace of this child is outstanding. It is a fascinating piece of jewelry. To console against. It gives you goosebumps, its incredible. Even compared to ancient. Petra was one times taught the berry treasures taken to germany for further examination. The restoration experts. Andrea fisher and ali spook heart. Prepare the beats so that the archaeologist ha, she can reconstruct the necklace. Which will then be returned to jordan. Suddenly, the modern world is brought to a standstill by a virus. International travel largely ceases. And National Borders are closed. Finally, an autumn of 2021. The experts from the fire when he visited berlins ex oriented scientific association, are able to return with jimmie loos restored necklace. The stone age artwork is to receive a special place in the new petro museum. Near the excavation site. Archaeological discoveries are only allowed to be taken out of children for research purposes, but they remain the countries property before the meal is, necklace is mounted in the museum, the restoration experts and archaeologists make another visit to the discovery site. What will they uncovered this time . The hans keowee car gave it, came to barbara in 1984, and had overseen the excavations ever since valid red z ad. I. Li faisal animal hammered a members of the marine tribe of some of them have spent decades assisting with the excavations along with their families. Many of the local bedouins once lived in and around neighboring petra, as tourism became increasingly important. The jordanian government moved them into a purpose built village albania. The village is also the base camp. For the barger archaeologists, the necessary equipment is stored in one of el bait. As simple houses the team only ever take what they really need with them. As getting to the site is extremely difficult. With the pickups, make their way through the dusty rocky landscape to the entrance into the deep barsha gorge. The spouse vegetation here requires irrigation to grow. With these large trees, on the other hand, grew without human interference. They marked the beginning of a gorge shaped by masses of water, of a thousands of years known locally as a seek you on foot. The luggage makes the climb even more challenging. Multiple journeys are required to transport everything to the site. Despite the difficulties, the seek remains the easiest way to access the well hidden location. It is safe to assume that people took the same route to the settlement. 9000 years ago. Somewhat unsurprisingly, father was 1st discovered by a mountaineer. More than 30 years ago. The austrian climber came across some stone age tools at the foot of one of the rock walls, hands kia ca gave her learned of the discovery, and set out to investigate. Guided by curiosity and luck. In 1984 gabriel had to navigate the gorge without equipment. These days, 3 lad is remain in place in the seek during the excavations while the others are required at the site itself. With the remote hidden location of the stone age village, protected the artifacts from grave robbers, and from late a human expansion and construction towards the top of the seek opens up to reveal the high plateau. The archaeologists have named barsha after the surrounding mountains. Marian benson housekeeper, ca gabors, find themselves in familiar surroundings. But it is the 1st time Andrea Fisher and alleys, poor cod, had laid eyes on the excavation site, which amelias grave and the beads. The 2 restoration experts have now been working on foremost 2 years were found for thousands of years. The only visitors to this place consisted of a k is will go to heard is the 9000 year old village was discovered during the removal of the 1st layer of earth. Archaeologists can only base their conclusions on materials, able to survive for millennia, such as rock, horn, bone, or shell, the jordanian archaeologist an art historian, serene. Albuquerque uses the scientific results of her colleagues, as well as her knowledge and her imagination to bring the village back to life. Oh, shoe box was part of the Excavation Team in 2018 and has developed a strong bond with the ancient site. It is the 5th time. Marianna bens has visited barger in 2018. She and halla, al at ashi, uncovered tremulous grave. Thats over for the me. Vasa is like winning the lottery to him and i was able to excavate a number of graves that told me a lot about ancient and social structures. That is my specialist else. Denial mind that transition from the magic to set in 3 ways of life and the resulting social changing se, as well try to find that in barsha, one of the oldest villages discovered to date this transition occurred around 9000 years ago along with jericho and hazel baster and other places, basha is part of the so called mega site phenomenon along the jordan rift valley, which introduced new Socio Economic patterns to the area. Oh, initial settlements were founded here around a 1000 years be see. These settlements expanded covering areas of up to 16 hectors. Then banished again. Barger lies approximately half way between the red sea and the dead sea. At the edge of what he out above. The dead sea region acts as a form of natural archive for geologists and hydrologists. The strata all layers of rock and soil reflect the climatic conditions of the past. A warm period began around 12000 years ago, causing glaciers to melt and sea levels to rise. The changing climate resulted in cold, damp winces, and hot summer months. Ideal conditions were growing grain and legumes. These changes, along with the fertile soils allowed previously nomadic peoples to settle in one place. Villages sprung up and then expanded their inhabitants farmed land and enjoyed their new found leisure opportunities at the time, the landscape between a man and october probably looked similar to the north of modern day jordan, where reforestation efforts are now proving successful. To date it is not known how the people who lived on the plateau gained access to water. There was no indication that there was a spring in the vicinity. Did the villagers perhaps use the seek as a reservoir . And what did this remote plato look like at the time . You know, life is changing from bus until now, and i dont know, we have many things that make High Temperature in toward. And before in the site they have like cam water source around. The site indicate from the tools the leak to its also when you find some tools, they use the po, again, like see, and pieces indicate that they use it for planets and it was good laden, scorn, fly. There death the people of vasa lived, our farming and their livestock lance that they primarily grew legumes and we have found conclusive proof that they found peas, the alps as a her Animal Protein was provided by sheep and goats and zones would do shop. We assume that the field stretched out towards valley arabic and were also located up here towards the east of the arabian plateau. Pushed him while the arbor at the time this mount, the beginning of the vast stems which are now desert, or yet the calls and stepan unpinned, sought the american side, or to boost ist population numbers increased rapidly. Carbohydrates were now readily available, which was not the case for hunter gatherer societies. Women were therefore able to give birth every 2 years, rather than every 4 to 5 years. But why would People Choose to settle in such a constricted area . That would have been a limited amount of land available for farming and access to water was as problematic then as it is now. For tyler z even darling does as up one of the advantages of this location is that it is quite remote law. In addition, at once, it was settled, there was little chance of territorial dispute. Yeah. Then the people may have argued amongst themselves over land life, but there was no outside threat. Its also muffin of a neat mammoth on the because space was limited. Dwellings were built close together layer by layer. The work is advanced further into the past. Some of the walls reach depths of around 4 meters, which suggests the buildings had at least 2 stories. Ah, the rooms are small and have little or no daylight. The excavations confirm that they were largely use for food preparation and storage as yet, there is no indication of any part. So lanes between the buildings never can. We can say with some confidence that the settlement was very densely constructed. Wherever we dug, we uncovered wolves come along. It is increasingly clear that the little rooms be excavated and the initial phases on that were too small for people to live in the im of we therefore assume that much of the village is life to place on the roofs and in nature of indiana, to off that to fall as hunters and gatherers, small numbers of humans had spread out across bos territories. Now hundreds lived close together for marianna benson. This raises a number of questions. Hows the people lived in houses built side by side for at least 500 years often, but largely without any apparent conflict. Its hard to imagine that the neighbor wasnt 500 meters or a kilometer away, but right next door its beverly that is extremely socially challenging. Enormous its law off on the home. Little is known of how the people of the time organized their lives. What rules were stablished, protect social cohesion, and which familial constellations made use of the buildings. And how, since jojo gretzky of the German Archaeological Institute examines the bones found during the excavation to learn more about how the people were related to each other. The ages and the causes of death. Did not the bones are very fragile. And when he brushed the dirt away, you can see them very clearly and bad as soon as you pick them up. They fall apart and we have to reconstruct them in the laboratory and are therefore unable to obtain the results we can get from well preserved skeletons. Nonetheless, guleski is able to come to some initial conclusions. Thus, yes, i, this is a child skull. Its facing in my direction, part of it still concealed in the earth under the wall. Unfortunately, there are at least 2 people here, one adult, one child. There might be more children, flight of martina at the time, people were buried under the floors inside the buildings. Rather than some distance from the village as, as danger, dozens of why i think our modern burial prices would be as much of a mystery to them as theirs are to us. We try to keep our distance from death. Of course, our burial sites are not located in our houses. In fact, we try to establish them outside population centers. So we can stay as far away from death as possible. It may be, this would have been considered inappropriate back then for the da modeling, for it may even be the complete opposite of what they believed that from the embassies ish good afternoon. Ah, shamella was also buried below the floor of a house where she would have remained close to the living. As most a foster, theyll be up to lay. I was sealed and whitewashed. I to resemble the rest of the floor. One tavar below that was a layer of stone chip safely touch log and then intentionally shattered sandstone tiles that glitter like a mother of pearl in the sunlight when the broken dan wont come. The quarter below that was the largest land monetary and raising that was very exciting. How was it . We lifted it up and when we saw was sand comes out a. We brushed and brushed and brushed. The team feared that the grave was empty and was close to re sealing it and then come the us and then we saw the beats. At 1st we numbered each one individually and then we began numbering groups actual some. Eventually we were just taking photos and making small sketches before we removed whole bundles. If there were 2500 beads in all power and calls and 12500 beat more than had ever been found in one place in this area. Where did they come from . And what was their purpose . In the spring of 2019, the valuable objects are sent to the academy of art and design in stuttgart, which spec slices in conserving historical cultural discoveries. Ah elise pooh account is responsible for restoring each individual element of the artifact. While the archaeologist halla ashy is tasked with reconstructing the entire piece by evaluating traces left during the production process and in use. Allora she is able to determine what purpose certain beads served ah, the barge a treasure is kept safely in a Small Back Room on the 3rd floor. At least work out nose every inch of it in incredible detail. As far so as initially when the objectives were connected in bags and it was impossible to determine what condition the individual beads were in the fine one. Of course the archaeologists expressed their wish that me would produce an exhibition piece. But we had to evaluate everything. First, before time whether this would be possible, depending on the condition of the beats, and how many could actually be exhibit talked and austin wasnt lou elise, poor carter examined every single one of the 2500 beats, checking the deposits on the surface and carefully removing them under the microscope, using a variety of methods boycott attempts to restore each valuable bead to as close to its original state as possible. She then uses synthetic resins to conserve the beat and prepare them for the process of reconstructing the entire pace. This treatment can be reversed if future generations of scientists have access to new technical processes and wish to re examined the original beats incredibly, the restoration beds are eventually able to pass around 80 percent of the 9000 year old be john to holler ashy. First of all, we try to understand the position of all these feats without saying that this is a nicholas or this is a belt or didnt we just try to understand the relation of the beats with the bones. And we saw during this commission that these beats wherefore saturated on the neck of a child. After considering the archaeological data, we started to concentrator exclusively on the beads and try to understand the initial position. One discovery in particular, proved useful in reconstructing the ancient jewelry. While the 1st things that we found during the desk evasion was their inc, as it was completely in a vertical position. So we started by excavating the edge of their inc. Witcher, which was very, very fragile. And we had to go down very, very carefully. After i think 3 days, we finally got the entire tire ring, but it was fragmented, of course. And during this conversation, we found that we still have small beats stuck to these before asians. And so we know we knew her since the beginning that there ink had a very Important Role in this necklace. The mother repelled, ringing is the centerpiece of the necklace and ties it altogether. The ring itself is produced from a single large shell. Ah in order to gain a deeper understanding of the methods and abilities of the people at the time, the akio technician voice hain, attempts to create an accurate replica of the original. This may not be a rigorously scientific experiment, but it provides some indication of what tools and techniques were used 9000 years ago, sundays from him. From the moment i heard about the badger be necklace, ill to recreate it using original stone age tools or, you know, spencer to touch 1st. When i had to find a large shell for the shopping. The omega that at the outline of the ring is edged on to the shell using a beerin made by splitting a sanction of a piece of flint, with a single well aimed blogs in it. Yet if to houston huskily that worked, the edge here is what we will work with. The others cut to metabolic leg motion and is this metal . It was probably used to car the entire ring out of the shell. But you have to be very careful when drilling you have to turn on to be and exert very little pressure. Otherwise the drill bit or the shell my break, the shell may have been somewhat exotic, but the people of bars are most likely found the Raw Materials for the sandstone beat on their doorstep. Vanish what they will probably produce using the same methods weve seen elsewhere should of i tried it several times. It takes a lot of patience and care every 5th beat or so brace which is clenched i. These small stones, a ground smooth the edges of the stones of sand down to produce the necessary curves. The next step is particularly risky. Voice haine carefully uses a flint bit to drill a tiny hole through the beat. Zoe, this is lost now the whole is completed, how that we could sand down each bead individually. But there is also another possibility we can place several beats on the stake. Im struck stricken when virginia physical down run the entire row over the slide together. Mclearnen now of course our strength letter, which, sorry, ah, decreed about instruct him by turning the stick back and forth. I could ensure that all the beads and up the same size. Its quite a fast process. The corners and edges are already gone. If i continue doing this for half an hour or an hour, then the beach will all look fairly similar the to turn i limited when you got the beats were unbelievably swollen, intricate. The people must have been very skilled and ive had sensitive hands in order to produce something so fragile. Ah, the necklace is proof of the exceptional workmanship and the aesthetic sensibilities the early sedentary humans were capable of. And in no way conforms to familiar cliches about primitive stone age, people are inspired by the nicholas the teen named the girl in the grave. Shamella, the beautiful blue. Imagine that this importance of this child that they took this whole o masterpiece and put it, hide it in the earth or after all this work. So yes, its now, it has a lot of dimensions that we are only starting to understand. Every element of the necklace has several stories to tell about the Raw Materials, the production techniques, its place within the greater whole. And about the dead girl herself, ah tamela that in so fennel league is jemila has made his change by changing accepted preconceptions of the neolithic age. Youngster. The new stone age is often depicted as crude and simple. But the jewelry and the construction of the gray suggest that people had special skill sets and that there was a far ranging trade network key, the d. C. M, quite the necklace is turquoise stone. This came from sinai while the shells were from the red sea. And the way it was threaded suggests it was something very special or skin that this alice kansas on that as far the discovery of other delicate pieces of jewelry including fragile pendants and apparently mass produced rings made of red sandstone, reveals that the people of the age devoted a lot of time to producing hand crafted luxury goods. The artifacts uncovered by the archaeologists confirmed that they were made in almost every single house to the room ctns on struggling infant vonsha. The renowned barger sandstone rings were made from coast disks that were more or less round. They were then hollowed out by scraping a deep grooves in which eventually allowed the centerpiece to be removed. Heil done her last name. These the experimental archeologists reveals the next steps in the production process. Not even a little ruined after the center is removed when there are 2 ways of working on the red feed. We can either use our b or into achieve the shape go want, or we send it down into is the right size. Nickerson. Life can fly sound astounding and grinding. It would have been order boy to any one approaching a near lithium settlement for a long way away. The fragile sandstone rings remained something of a mystery, mere business, and we dont know quite what they were useful. We assuming the quantity played an Important Role. The more rings one had the more prestigious one was he shot. My theory is that they were used as coupons for trade him, that objects could be exchanged for Certain Services or favors of india. Such objects may also have included shells or rings. There was symbols of appreciation and help to increase social cohesion. Yeah. Interestingly, there was also a tide of forgery at the time. Similar rings with the same distinctive red color, well, so produced using mall in nearby boston. It was much easier and faster to work with mom than with sandstone. And the rings were then simply dyed red. These rings were produced in areas where there was no sandstone. Wooden forgeries have been a part of life ever since humans learned to make things sad, damage, or duty of motto, built and copied, ah, the demand for certain goods and far ranging trade networks came at a cost. Ah, the villages existence increasingly depended on access to Raw Materials and market forces. The exotic materials used to produce tremulous necklace are just one example of the significance of valuable objects. Objects which had to be paid for somehow. Mm. A further challenge was maintaining a Peaceful Society in such a small space as yet no indications of any form of hierarchical structure have been found. Ah, madame modern studies have revealed that once a group consists of a 150 people or more, it becomes very difficult to maintain control and ensure that disagreements dont escalate. Megan aiden. Conflict management is essential watchman. Up to 500 people lived. In barger, a large settlement by the standards of the time social conflicts could have led to a rapid breakdown of the community. This is just one of the possible factors that may have caused the inhabitants of barbara to abandon their settlement for ever. Around 6900 b. C. Up these and vic long. It is difficult to say whether this development was a result of collapse or simply change then, and perhaps a greater differentiation set in. Among the later settlers to differentiate sam began to move about and returned to the nomadic lifestyle. While others settled in smaller villages, incline on and off on perhaps this was a better model, fiarty, but that was both more sustainable and more so she compatible had for practitioner much of barger has been preserved as a result of the settlements remote location, jemila grave and her necklace are the most significant artifacts found at the excavation side to date, and will now we put on display in the new petro museum. The countries entire history is on display here. With barsha, appearing almost at the very beginning. Badger also marked the beginning of the development which changed human lives far more than industrialization did in the 19th century or digitalization is to day cultures came and went settlements, rose and fell. People moved on, but humans never returned to their former hunter gatherer existence. These Ground Breaking developments are preserved at amelias burial site, who saint al sabah bath is therefore determined to ensure that the grave is reconstructed as accurately as possible. My part is to rebuild the system of the grave in the museum and the thought i am doing right now, and i think looks good. What do you think in another room, in the museum, Andrea Fisher alleys poor cut, and ha, russia are similarly excited to see their work finally come to fruition. Sole after world. No events in the necklace was broken down to its Component Parts for the journey from germany. To jordan, to ensure that the ancient piece of jewelry arrived unscathed, the strings of beads are now re attached to form the necklace that 9000 years earlier, grieving parents had placed around the neck of their deceased daughter. Hello, laura, she has produced a sketch to use as a guide the concepts they year really thought before composing this necklace. It was studied and not only in terms of needs, it was also measured and conceptualize, in terms of strength and chords. And this means that the other people were also involved not only being makers, but also probably people who, where specialized in making chords or making strength certain tasks were most likely performed by specialists. An early example of division of labor. How the inhabitants of badger sauce, the Raw Materials remains a mystery. If you want to have exotic materials, its better that youll be in a very or well situated village, where you can work your network and relationships. And in order to get her nice, a good quality for mateus, and it is strange that they are almost hidden between the mountains. So this is weird when you see their environment. When you see the village, when you see the location, despite the remote nature of the village, barges inhabitants had close ties to their surroundings. It is impossible to say just how extensive this network was. But the people was certainly part of the wider world. While the experts in the museum are hard at work rebuilding jemila necklace, excavations continue on the plateau. Marian bent discovers a slab from a grave. Is history repeating itself . Once again a burial site is found just as excavations draw to a close. But on scale ca gabriel has his doubts. Its not him after clearing the entire area, i now have a different idea. Its possible that the slab is simply lying on the floor and that there isnt actually a grave at all. But im not sure. The plaster and the layer of ash would suggest that it is a grave, but i cant be 100 percent sure. On his own, i would brush away some more of the dirt and then use the scraper to uncover mold. Batter quotes martez, you know, may be lifted slightly on cobra and then check if there is anything underneath or not. Theres a 90 percent chance of it being a grave with lots of vine. So youre very optimistic. It sounds different here than it does here. Can you hear it does come on. I national the might just be a hole in one place. Yeah, thats true. Really of, im under it now. Leach from this lou snap on tool. Its on pull it out horizontally, as we dont know where the frank jer is its is not islam. Now its more damage than before fuzzy. What kevin lee, he. Oh dear, its of puzzle pieces. Now, i did, one of us resumed. Fortunately we have so restore as long as thorn the buck i know precisely the slab has been removed and the tension mouse there are some larger stones here. Once again, molly on has to work quickly as the excavation is about to finish for the year. Evening falls and work stops for the day. Bozza has a welcoming, mystical atmosphere despite its remote location and the hard work of the excavations the Archaeological Team has been rewarded for to years of perseverance, with the discovery of jemila and her necklace. At the petro museum, hollered us, she, Andrea Fisher and elise boycott are also about to be rewarded. Jemila nicholas has been completed and its ready to be exhibited. Finally, we finally found the appropriate place for it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So im yeah, thats how it should be. It looks good. Ah, we have, its here. Its not only on paper so we have its really in the museum, so its really great. Ah. On the barge a plateau. The last day of excavation has begun up. So i removed the layer of plaster, but theres nothing but sand underneath wasnt harder with thats a shame. I thought that be more nothing has been found below the stone slab, but jojo guleski has discovered and laid bare a child sco in another room. A 2nd sco, remain stuck in the earth. Despite the time pressure gretzky hopes she can extract it in one piece. Ah, pollyanna, mary, on hands georg, look what i found yourself when was, what is it . Yes. The child scowl was here and he is the cervical spine. And the ribs in situ, the upper arm is precisely where it should be. And as a beautiful necklace around the neck, yet a bead necklace at pancoast. As of yeah, yeah. With long beads and a beautiful red and green stone green us time with your fantastic. And that the last possible momma ha, ha, ha ha. See this . The situation is reminiscent of 2018 back then. Hello law. She had to stop what she was doing in order to retrieve shamela sensational necklace. Now in 2021, the same thing happens again. Jojo gretzky who discovered the grave has to catch a flight and halla, she assumed responsibility for retrieving the jewelry. It is as though the ancient graves of badger telling the team make sure you come back. There is still much to discover. Ah halla, she has collected the beads and numbered them. She will remain in albania for a time in order to examine the artifact piece by piece. What will this discovery reveal about human existence, 9000 years ago. In recent decades, barger has provided a wealth of information that has changed, accepted wisdom, about the people of the neolithic age. Our distant ancestors were able to spend time engaged and creative aesthetic and decorative pursuits because of an abundance of food. Basha has fundamentally altered our understanding of the past yet so much about the ancient settlement still remains a mystery for now. A ah is the end of the pandemic in site . We show what it could look like. 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