Les Couteaux yarmoukiens polis sur plaquette du site de Shayyeh, vallée du Zarqa, Jordanie.

Abstract

Présentation de deux pièces retouchées obtenues sur plaquette de silex polie provenant du gisement de Shayyeh découvert récemment dans la vallée du Zarqa en Jordanie. Ce site date incontestablement du Yarmoukien. Les pièces, dont le processus de polissage était jusqu'alors inconnu, ont de grandes ressemblances morphologiques avec d'autres pièces provenant de sites de la même période.

Early farmers and their environment: archaeobotanical research at Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Jordan

“…Recently, small excavations have been carried out at two more Yarmoukian sites in the northern Jordanian highlands. One is es-Sayyeh, mentioned above, a 3ha site in the Wadi Zarqa that was apparently occupied from the PPNB to the Yarmoukian, and perhaps re-occupied during the Chalcolithic (Palumbo and Parenti 1997;Kafafi et al 1999). Excavations in 1997 and 1999 found fragmentary walls and well-built storage pits in the Pottery Neolithic phase, which was attributed to the Yarmoukian on the basis of lithic, rather than ceramic, typology.…”