The Life and Death of Ain Ghazal.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Rollefson, Gary O.; Simmons, Alan H.
- Source
- Archaeology. Nov/Dec87, Vol. 40 Issue 6, p39-44. 7p.
- Subject
- *EXTINCT cities
*NEOLITHIC Period
*LANDSCAPES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0003-8113
Explores the town of 'Ain Ghazal in Neolithic Jordan. Cultural development in the middle of the sixth millennium B.C.; Population; Sense of cultural self-consciousness among the people of the community; Description of Jordan's landscape; Inventory of artifacts from the site which reflects both the daily routines of the population and the extraordinary events that punctuated life; History of social ceremonies at 'Ain Ghazal.