🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
ʿAin Ghazal
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇯🇴 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 · 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 · Ancient city
Teleilat Ghassul — Jordan Valley
Chalcolithic (4500–3900 BCE) · Ghassulian
Teleilat Ghassul — Jordan Valley in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Chalcolithic (4500–3900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Ghassulian culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Hesban (Tell Hesban / Esbus)
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) · Moabite–Ammonite–Roman
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) tell of Moabite–Ammonite–Roman in Balqa Governorate, Madaba Plains (c.1200 BCE).
🇯🇴 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Teleilat Ghassul
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.
🇯🇴 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 · Tell
Khirbet Iskander
EB III through EB IV/Intermediate Bronze (c.2500–2000 BCE) with EBA predecessor and MB I squatter · EB III Canaanite → EB IV transitional (Intermediate Bronze) highland town
Fortified EB IV town (c.2500–2000 BCE) with double walls — only continuous EBA III→EB IV survival above 4.2kya collapse (Richard).
🇯🇴 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Kharaysin (Tell Kharaysin)
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.