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Tagsjawa
7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age c.3200–3000 BCE (Late Chalcolithic-EBA) · Levantine EBA / Ghassulian network
Jawa (c.3200–3000 BCE) – Black Desert basalt town with 4m-high gravity masonry dam impounding Wadi Rajil (Jawa Reservoir), 8 km canal network and 3-pool system capturing 31,000 m³.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
EB I (Proto-urban Chalco–EB transition) · Jawa proto-urban Black Desert (Chalcolithic-EB)
South satellite of Jawa's 3300 BCE basalt dam system: 52-m curvilinear dam impounding 2,000 m³ on Wadi Rajil.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Proto-Jawa Ghassulian-Chalcolithic
120-m south spillway with ogee crest and riprap of main Jawa dam — earliest weir hydraulics.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age · Late Chalcolithic pastoral proto-urban
Wadi Rajil north 80-m ×5-m basalt rubble with 10 ha reservoir, oldest dam-system part 3000 BCE Jawa desert town.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Ghassulian–Early Bronze IA (Proto-Jawa)
Eastern 72-m basalt dam and canal feeding Jawa proto-city — earliest desert irrigation.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Proto-Jawa
1.8-km spate canal feeding 12-ha bunded fields north of Jawa town.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (3500 – 3000 BCE) · Proto-urban pastoralist Jawa (Jordanian black desert)
West pool of world's earliest 3500 BCE basalt dam network 80 m serving 3,000 desert inhabitants.
