Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)

GPTKB entity

Statements (31)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:artifacts
gptkbp:characterizedBy early agriculture
use of stone tools
absence of pottery
circular mud-brick houses
burials under house floors
communal granaries
gptkbp:endDate c. 8,800 BCE
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Pre-Pottery_Neolithic_B_(PPNB)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA)
gptkbp:mainCrops barley
emmer wheat
gptkbp:notableBuilding Tower of Jericho
gptkbp:notableFor sedentism
early village life
gptkbp:notableSite gptkb:Jericho
gptkb:Netiv_Hagdud
Gilgal I
gptkbp:period Neolithic
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Natufian_culture
gptkbp:region gptkb:Levant
gptkbp:species cattle (hunted)
gazelle (hunted)
wild boar (hunted)
gptkbp:startDate c. 10,000 BCE
gptkbp:technology flint tools
microliths
ground stone axes
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Aceramic_Neolithic
gptkb:pre-ceramic_Neolithic
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8