🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin
PPNA to Late PPNB (9000–6800 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNA → PPNB (Jericho–Yarmoukian continuum)
25 ha PPN mega-site on Zarqa River with earliest cremation and 6800-seed legume archive.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNA to Late PPNB (9000–6800 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNA → PPNB (Jericho–Yarmoukian continuum)
25 ha PPN mega-site on Zarqa River with earliest cremation and 6800-seed legume archive.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Late Neolithic through Byzantine–Islamic (c.5500 BCE–749 CE); Neolithic, EBA–MB–LB, Iron I–II, Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine · Neolithic → Canaanite (MBA–LBA) → Iron Ammonite → Decapolis Hellenistic–Roman → Byzantine → Early Islamic
Jordan Valley gateway — MBA Canaanite town to Decapolis Pella (6000-yr, 10 ha + 30 ha lower city) with 635 CE Yarmuk layer.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)
PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EBA through Mamluk; Iron II peak · Moabite/Ammonite frontier → Persian Yehud fringe → Byzantine
Madaba Plains giant tell (18 ha) — Iron Ammonite pillared building, 9th c. destruction and Persian reoccupation, largest in Jordan’s Madaba Plains.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron I transition key · Ammonite frontier; EB Canaanite → LB Canaanite/Ammonite
Ammonite wadi fortress with earliest Levantine four-room house (13th c. BCE) — LB-Iron citadel, casemate-rampart and Persian farm in Madaba Plains.