Iraq ed-Dubb - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Iraq ed-Dubb - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan. The settlement existed before 8,000 BCE and experimented with the cultivation of founder crops, side by side with the harvesting of wild cereals.Sue Colledge,Plant Exploitation in Epipaleolithic and early Neolithic sites in the Levant, British Archaeological Reports International Series 986, Oxford 1991. Along with Tell Aswad in Syria, the site shows the earliest reference to domestic hulled barley between 10,000 and 8,800 BCE.Colledge, Sue, Conolly, James & Shennan, Stephen., Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean, Current Anthropology, The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Volume 45, Supplement, August - October 2004. The site is located on a forested limestone escarpment above the Wadi el-Yabis in northwest Jordan. An oval-shaped stone structure was excavated along with two burials and a variety of animal and plant remains.Kuijt I., Palumbo G., Mabry J., Early Neolithic use of upland areas of Wadi El-Yabis : preliminary evidence from the excavations of 'Iraq Ed-Dubb, Jordan, Paléorient, Volume 17, Issue 17-1, pp. 99-108, 1991. Read more on Wikipedia
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