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An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan

2011; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 85; Issue: 328 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x00067806

1745-1744

Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins, Mohammed Najjar, D. Maricevic,

Archaeology and Historical Studies

The authors present a new type of communal and monumental structure from the earliest Neolithic in western Asia. A complement to the decorated stone pillars erected at Göbekli Tepe in the north, ‘Wadi Faynan 16 Structure O75’ in the southern Levant is a ritualised gathering place of a different kind. It serves to define wider western Asia as an arena of social experiment in the tenth millennium BC, one in which community seems to take precedence over economy.