Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Earlier part of the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 8,500 years ago, (10000 – 6500 BCE).[1][3][4][5] It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East (also called Mesolithic), as the domestication of plants and animals was in its formative stages, having possibly been induced by the Younger Dryas.
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Geographical range | Fertile Crescent |
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Period | Neolithic |
Dates | c. 10000 – 6500 BCE[1] |
Type site | Jericho |
Preceded by | Epipalaeolithic Near East (Kebaran culture, Natufian culture) Khiamian |
Followed by | Halaf culture, Neolithic Greece, Faiyum A culture |
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The Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture came to an end around the time of the 8.2-kiloyear event, a cool spell centred on 6200 BCE that lasted several hundred years. It is succeeded by the Pottery Neolithic.