AMMAN The settlement at Ain Ghazal Site is one of the largest Neolithic settlements known in the Near East and is situated on the western edge of the Wadi Zarqa, which, although dry today, was a permanent stream from at least late Pleistocene and early Holocene times until the mid-1950’s. Ain Ghazal is now part of north-eastern Amman.
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AMMAN Located some 500 metres from the old Amman-Jerash road, Tell Abu Suwwan represents one of the Neolithic mega sites whose occupation goes back to Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. Today, the area is used for agriculture and this extensive work on the land destroyed the archaeological layers.
AMMAN Southern Levant was in the Egyptian orbit around 884AD and it continued to be during the Middle Islamic Period (1000AD-1500AD). It has often been assumed that Transjordan had been a peripheral area during the Abbasid Period when Abbasids transferred the capital to Bagdad. With the expansion of Fatimid control in 970AD, it was characterised by building military outposts
AMMAN At the beginning of the Early Bronze Age I (EB I) (3,300-3,000 BC), Transjordan featured a regionalised system, with several archaeological finds testifying to a network of intense interconnections, noted archaeologist Eloisa Casadeli, from Sapienza University of Rome.