AMMAN — During the mid-4th to the mid-3rd millennia Cal BC, the southern Levant saw changes in social organisation, settlement character and economy. Settlements became walled, megalithic funerary ...

But many believe they were ritual pits, found not only in the Southern Levant but also across the ancient Near East ... periods to meet contemporary needs has always been common in history for ...

When you study Mesopotamian history or archaeology, you always see the Elamites ... Could you walk us through your current research on the Southern Levant during the Persian Empire — what questions ...

Scholars have long debated whether human activity or climatic factors prompted the Neolithic Revolution, the transition from ...

A new study reveals that the Neolithic Revolution in the southern Levant may have been triggered by catastrophic wildfires and climate-driven soil erosion. Using charcoal records, isotopic data ...

JERUSALEM, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A recent Israeli study has linked humanity's shift to farming about 8,000 years ago in the Southern Levant to climate-driven wildfires and soil erosion, the Hebrew ...

Between 130,000 and 80,000 years ago, during a stretch of history known as the mid-Middle ... cultural network that stretched across the southern Levant. At Tinshemet Cave, the discovery of ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel and Jordan, the so-called southern Levant region, showed distinct differences to those of people inhabiting the Zagros Mountains. “There has been a ...