Jericho and Neolithic farming

• Located in modern day Palestine.
• It is an oasis 250 meters below sea level. 
• It is thought that the population numbered about 2,000 inhabitants. 

Natufian Culture

• Dates to roughly 10,500-8,500BC.
• There is a large walled settlement.
• There is evidence that there was already settled village life here before domestication. 
• Farming is thought to have begun here before the invention of pottery.
• This culture can be split into Pre-pottery Neolithic which is then split in PPNA and PPNB

PPNA

• This dates to 8,500-7,300 BC
• They lived with a combination of farming, animal herding, hunting and gathering wild plants.
• They manipulated plants and animals causing changes in the size of the wild species which then leads to the suggestion of the start of domestication. 
• Found here during this period were several species of wheat, barley and lentils.
• A stone wall and a large ditch which was cut into bedrock surrounded the 4 hectare settlement.
• The stone wall was 3.6m high and had a tower as well. It was originally thought to…