num_pages: 640
description: This edited volume provides a full report on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of WF16, southern Jordan. Very few sites of PPNA date have been excavated using modern methods, so this report makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of this period. Excavations have shown that the site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage reveals new information on the processes that lead to the domestication of the goat.Table of ContentsIntroduction ( Bill Finlayson ); Part 1. Early Prehistory Landscape Archaeology of Wadi Faynan Long-term landscape evolution of Wadis Dana, Faynan and Ghuwayr ( Richard Tipping ); The archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan ( Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson and Anne Pirie ); Rock art at WF400 ( Suzie Pinkett ); A comparartive study of bifaces from Wadis Faynan and Al Bustan ( Eileen Clegg ); Part 2. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16 Excavations at WF16 ( Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen ); The soil microstratigraphy ( Eleanor Roe ); The chipped stone ( Anne Pirie ); The microwear of pointed chipped stone artefacts ( Sam Smith ); The worked bone ( Bill Finlayson ); The ground stone ( Ruth Shaffrey ); The stone beads ( Pat Critchley ); The marine shells and artefacts ( Ruby Ceron-Carrasoc ); A bitumen deposit ( Karen Wicks ); The mammal bones ( Denise Carruthers ); The small mammal bones ( Louise Martin and Yvonne Edwards ); The bird bones ( Kevin Rielly ); The human bones ( Charlotte Roberts ); The wood charcoal ( Phil Austin ); The plant macrofossils ( Amanda Kennedy ); The modern vegetation of Wadi Ghuwayr and its palaeoenvironmental implications ( Neil Lancaster, Helen Emberson and Steven Mithen ); Geophysical survey at WF16 ( Tim Austin ) The settlement of WF16 and the PPNA in the southern Levant ( Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen ).
language: English
title: The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan and evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, A Site of Wf16
titlecomplete: The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan and evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, A Site of Wf16
places: Jordan, Wadi Faynan
publisher: Council for British Research in the Levant