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

• Autores: Steven J. Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Sam Smith, Emma Jenkins, Mohammed Najjar, Darko Maricevic
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 85, Nº 328, 2011, págs. 350-364
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.