TELL QARAMEL. EXCAVATIONS 2005
TELL QARAMEL. EXCAVATIONS 2005

Summary/Abstract: The chief objective of the seventh season of excavations at Tell Qaramel was to continue with the exploration of the early aceramic layers (C14 non-calibrated dating = 8650–7700 bc) representing the so-called Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) horizon in traditional terminology. Fieldwork was concentrated in three squares located on the lowest part of the southern slope of the tell (J-8, J-7/K-7 and K-3/4-L-3/4). In square K-3/4-L-3/4, levels belonging to the older cultural tradition provisionally referred to as the Proto-Qaramelian horizon (representing the Proto-Neolithic) were explored. The main focus, however, was laid on the two Early PPNA towers and their immediate neighborhood uncovered in trenches J-8, J-7/K-7; the older of the two appears to have been destroyed by fire about 8350 bc (non-calibrated).

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