EARLY NEOLITHIC WALL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN THE LIGHT OF ETHNOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MODERN SYRIAN VILLAGE OF QARAMEL
EARLY NEOLITHIC WALL CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN THE LIGHT OF ETHNOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MODERN SYRIAN VILLAGE OF QARAMEL

Summary/Abstract: Beginning with the Proto-Neolithic Natufian Culture there was growing diversification of architectural forms and techniques in different regions of the Near East. The process appears to have accelerated during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B periods, which are dated between 10,200 and 8000 BC calibrated. Some architectural techniques from the beginning of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, especially wall construction, employed technological solutions so efficient that they are still being used unchanged in modern architecture throughout the Near East. The huge similarities between modern and early Pre-Pottery Neolithic structures stand at the root of the present study. Modern architectural units were observed mainly in the area of the modern village of Qaramel and subjected to comparative analysis during a few seasons of fieldwork in Tell Qaramel. The data were enriched with information from other areas of northern Syria.

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