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**** as cultivation spread, it spread and mixed with hunter-gatherers ("foragers") | **** as cultivation spread, it spread and mixed with hunter-gatherers ("foragers") | ||
=== cities === | === early villages === | ||
* Ba'ja, Jordan | |||
** 7,000 BC settlement in isolated, mountainous region in southwest Jordan | |||
** period is PPNB (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) | |||
** up to 600 inhabitants in 1-2 story, connected houses built into hills | |||
** lived on legumes and animals | |||
** villagers had extensive stone working abilities for shell-jewelry and small sandstone rings | |||
*** the rings were possibly used for trade or wealth display | |||
** see | |||
*** "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3KdGOcnMqw Jordan: They mysterious Stone Age village] (DW Documentary on YouTube) | |||
*** [[wikipedia:Ba'ja|Ba'ja - (wikipedia)]] | |||
=== early cities === | |||
* walls | * walls | ||
** Jericho (in Jordan) | ** Jericho (in Jordan) | ||