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This monograph presents the revolutionary results of ten years of excavation and research in the Neolithic village of Sha'ar Hagolan, Jordan Valley, Israel. Sha'ar Hagolan is dated to the Pottery Neolithic period and is the type-site for the Yarmukian culture, which occupied large parts of the Mediterranean climatic zones of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon during the sixth millennium BC. Recent excavations at the site have far-reaching implications for the entire Neolithic period, as well as for the history of agriculture, art and cult and other aspects of material culture in the ancient Near East. The evidence for the architecture and village planning, material culture and remarkable art objects shows what was previously considered to be an era of decline was a time of cultural evolution and development in the Levant.

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this is a remarkable publication as site reports go, and if the next volumes prove to be as good as volume I, the Shaar Hagolan project will have proved special not only because of the archaeological data retrieved but also for the way and speed with which it has been published.'--Anna Belfer-Cohen Journal of the American Oriental Society (01/01/2003)

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Yosef Garfinkel is Yigael Yadin Chair in the Archaeology of Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has wide ranging research interests focused on the Levant region, mainly in the Neolithic period but also on Biblical archaeology and urban development.

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