JORDAN DURING THE LATE SEVENTH/ EARLY SIXTH MILLENNIA BC

Abstract

This paper discusses, within the present limits of Jordan, the way of life people used to live in this part of the world around 8500 years ago. Compared to other countries, comprehensive studies directed towards understanding the prehistory of Jordan are recent. They started, in fact, during the second half of the twentieth century. Since then, the increase in the number of projects is remarkable. The projects are widely distributed and representing a time range from the Lower Paleolithic to the Chalcolithic (Henry 1998; Gebel, Kafafi and Rollefson 1997; Garrard and Gebel 1988) Jordan is not located along the Mediterranean Sea cost. However, due to its climate and vegetation at least part of Jordan belongs to the Mediterranean zone. And this is the reasond behind including this paper in this volume.