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Pottery Neolithic landscape modification at Dhra'

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian Kuijt ,
Bill Finlayson  and
Jode MacKay
Ian Kuijt
Affiliation:
1Department of Anthropology, The University of Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Bill Finlayson
Affiliation:
2Council for British Research in the Levant, P.O. Box 519, Jubaiha, Amman, 11941, Jordan
Jode MacKay
Affiliation:
3Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada
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This report of the discovery of low walls running across the slopes east of the Dead Sea presents an important landmark in the history of farming, for these were terrace walls put in place to conserve soil and control water around 6000 cal BC. The authors point to some of the implications of what they see as early landscape modification at the scale of a small community or household.

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West AsiaNear EastDead SeaJordanNeolithicPNPPNC†agriculturefarmingirrigation

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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 311 , 1 March 2007 , pp. 106 - 118
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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