![]() Dishes and bowls were carved from soft limestone. Also found were grindstones, hammerstones, and axes made of greenstone. Other advancements include flints in the shape of arrowheads, sickle blades, burins (used as chisels), scrapers, and axes. The rooms had terrazzo floors made of lime and the courtyard had a floor made of clay. Each building consisted of several rooms situated around a central courtyard. Buildings were rectilinear structures made of mudbricks. There is evidence for the possible domestication of sheep at this time. ![]() This new settlement expanded the range of domesticated plants. It too was a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement. Around 7000 BCE, a second settlement was established by an invading people that absorbed the original inhabitants into their culture. Richardprins (GNU FDL) The Second SettlementĪfter a few centuries, the first settlement was abandoned. They supplemented their diet by hunting wild animals. It is highly probable that irrigation had been invented to provide enough land for the cultivation of these crops. At this time the inhabitants domesticated wheat, barley and legumes. Estimates vary on the population with a low of 300 to a high of 3000. Some scholars believe that the tower was used to motivate people into taking part in the communal lifestyle. This suggests that there was a social organization happening in the town. The tower was used for ceremonial purposes. It is thought that the wall was used to protect the settlement from flood waters. The only older towers than this one have been found at Tell Qaramel in Syria. The tower had an internal staircase with 22 steps. Inside the wall was a stone tower 8.5 meters (28 feet) high and 9 meters (30 feet) wide at the base. ![]() The Wall of JerichoĪrchaeological evidence reveals that by 8000 BCE, the site grew to 40,000 square meters (430,000 square feet) and was surrounded by a stone wall 3.6 meters (11.8 feet) high and 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) wide at the base. Archaeological evidence reveals that Jericho, by 8000 BCE, was surrounded by a stone wall 3.6 meters high & 1.8 meters wide.
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