1. Ain Ghazal The Site: In Jordan, near Amman
The period: Continuously inhabited from 7,250- 5,000(?)
The People: Mainly subsistence farmers and hunters
Ain Ghazal near Wadi Zarqa
Image: Rollefson “The Symbols of Ain Ghazal

2. Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 7,250-6,500 BCE Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 6,500-6,000 BCE Pre-Pottery Neolithic C 6,000-5,500 BCE Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic 5,500-5,000(?) BCE
MPPNB House
Plaster patches are covering sub-floor burials

3. A MPPNB burial
Photo: G. Rollefson
4 adult male skulls placed
Facing SW in a pit in a
Courtyard
Skull on Right still retains
Plaster
Photo; G. Rollefson

4. Three plastered faces from Ain Ghazal. Photo Carol Grissom

5. Statues from Cache 1.
Photos from Ain Ghazal Institute
Statue from Cache 1 (6,750+/- 80 BCE
Woman showing her breasts

6. Statues from Cache 2 (6,570 +/- 110 BCE.
Photos from Smithsonian Institute, Washington