🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan
PPNA to PPNB · Jordanian Highlands PPN
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan at Zarqa, Kharaysin, Jordan is a PPNA to PPNB ancient village of the Jordanian Highlands PPN tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Faynan Early Farming Ghwayr
PPNB to Early Neolithic · Faynan PPN
Wadi Faynan Early Farming Ghwayr at Wadi Faynan, Ghwayr I, Jordan is a PPNB to Early Neolithic ancient village of the Faynan PPN tradition, built c. 8300 BCE for long early neolithic early copper awl.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Baja
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
Tall Hisban (Heshbon)
EB through Mamluk; Iron II and Byzantine peaks · EB dolmen-builders → Iron Moab/Ammon → Nabataean → Roman/Byzantine Esbus → Mamluk
Biblical Heshbon on Dead Sea escarpment — Iron Moabite/Ammonite town to Hasmonaean, Roman Esbus, Byzantine mosaics and Mamluk farm, 15 m within 150×110 m mound.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Hammeh 27 Jordan Valley Natufian
Late Natufian · Natufian Jordan
Wadi Hammeh 27 Jordan Valley Natufian at Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Natufian Jordan tradition, built c. 12500 BCE for semi-subterranean natufian base camp.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Hammeh
Epipalaeolithic to PPNA (c.15,000–11,000 BP) · Kebaran → Natufian → PPNA
Jordan Valley Natufian–PPNA rock-shelter cluster (c.15–11 ka, Kebaran→Natufian hamster, early barley).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Fidan 4
Late PPNB to Early Pottery Neolithic (7000–6200 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Wadi Rabah (PN)
Late PPNB–Wadi Rabah terrace village tracking Faynan aridity collapse at 7000 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Beidha
PPNB to Nabataean · PPNB Levantine to Nabataean
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7200–6500 BCE) 5 km north of Petra at Siq al-Barid ('Little Petra'), first excavated by Diana Kirkbride.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tall Jalul
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
Tall al-‘Umayri (Tell el-Umeiri)
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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Basta
LPPNB (Late PPNB) · Levantine LPPNB
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B village (7500–6800 BCE, up to 10 ha), one of the largest and highest-altitude Neolithic settlements, controlling the Petra limestone plateau.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Coire Ancient Village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Coire Ancient Village in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Qasr Amra
Umayyad Caliphate (c.711–715 CE) · Umayyad Arab / Byzantine influence
Umayyad desert castle bathhouse (qasr) built by Caliph Walid I (705–715 CE) famous for extensive frescoes: vaulted audience hall with hunting scenes, musicians, six kings (Byzantine, Sasanian,…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East in Amman Governorate, Ayn Ghazal, Jordan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Nimrin (Tell esh-Shuna North vicinity)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Nimrin (Tell esh-Shuna North vicinity) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell el-Hayyat
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell el-Hayyat — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu Suwan
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu Suwan — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Mafraq Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu al-Kharaz
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Borobudur Hydraulic Basin North
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Borobudur Hydraulic Basin North in Harrat al-Sham, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Chumash Plank Canoe Workshop West
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Chumash Plank Canoe Workshop West in Harrat al-Sham, Jordan is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Azraq Oasis — Epipalaeolithic Aggregation
Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) · Kebaran-Natufian
Azraq Oasis — Epipalaeolithic Aggregation in Zarqa Governorate, Azraq Basin, Jordan is a Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kebaran-Natufian culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Ain Ghazal Extension — Wadi Zaqa Neolithic Fields
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500–4000 BCE) + Yarmoukian · PPN–Yarmoukian
Ain Ghazal Extension — Wadi Zaqa Neolithic Fields in Amman Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500–4000 BCE) + Yarmoukian ancient-village attributed to PPN–Yarmoukian.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Khirbet Iskander — EB IV
EB IV (2300–2000 BCE) · EB IV
Khirbet Iskander — EB IV in Zarqa Governorate, Wadi Iskander, Jordan is a EB IV (2300–2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to EB IV culture.