The Yarmukian Site at Tel Mitzpe Zevulun North (Naḥal Zippori 3), Lower Galilee, Israel
Israel Antiquities Authority
The Yarmukian culture of the central Jordan Valley in northern
Israel is well known owing to the extensive excavations carried out
by Yossi Garfinkel at Sha‘ar Hagolan, which have provided many insights into the Neolithic way of life. In the last decade, several new Yarmukian settlements have
been discovered and excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority due to construction plans. One of these is the site of Naḥal Zippori
in the Lower Galilee.
The settlement was established within allu-
vial lands close to the Naḥal Zippori stream, and hence its name. Its
architectural remains include a rectangular structure that faced a
courtyard with a rounded silo, cooking pits and other installations.
The pottery assemblage, including decorated vessels with her-
ringbone patterns and line-painted designs, is characteristic of the
Yarmukian and Jericho IX aspects of the Pottery Neolithic period;
so too is the lithic assemblage with its distinctive denticulated
sickle blades.
The most remarkable finds that link this site with
Sha‘ar Hagolan are fragments of around three dozen anthropomor-
phic clay figurines, both female and male, and a few zoomorphic clay figurines, all characteristic of the Yarmukian culture. The discovery of this settlement site at Naḥal Zippori extends the Yarmukian territory to the west of the country. Its rich mate-rial culture, including a well-built architectural complex and clay figurines, possibly indicates that it was a central settlement in the Lower Galilee region.
https://www.academia.edu/30817586/From_Shaar_Hagolan_to_Shaaraim_Essays_in_Honor_of_Prof._Yosef_Garfijinkel
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