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درس العمل الحقلي في وادي زقلاب أنماط الاستقرار وإيحاءات ارتباطاتها الاجتماعية والاقتصادية في الألفية السادسة (معيارية) قبل الميلاد. وفي حين كشف المسح عن موقع قرية واحدة كانت آهلة خلال فترة الخزف اليرموكي للعصر الحجري الحديث، إلا أن القرون التالية امتازت بأنماط متناثرة لقرى صغيرة وعزب زراعية. وأظهرت بعض الخصائص الثقافة المادية أن مواقع الاستقرار الصغيرة هذه اشتركت في مفاهيم معمارية وخزفية وحجرية تنتشر على رقعة واسعة من بلاد الشام، بما في ذلك خصائص «ثقافة وادي رباح». غير أن ثمة اختلافات مهمة برزت بين المواقع، حتى ضمن منطقة وادي زقلاب الصغيرة، توحي باختلافات نطاق الجماعات العاملة وشبكة التعلم من خلال تواصل الجوار ضمن شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي الإقليمي.
Fieldwork in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan, has investigated Late Neolithic settlement patterns and their implications for social and economic relationships in the sixth millennium cal. BC. While survey has detected only one village site occupied during the Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic, the subsequent centuries are characterized by a dispersed settlement pattern of hamlets and farmsteads. Some aspects of material culture show that these small settlements shared concepts of architecture, pottery and lithics with sites over a broad region in the central Levant, including characteristics of the “Wadi Rabah culture.” Yet significant differences among sites, even within the small territory of Wadi Ziqlab suggest differences in the scale of work groups and learning networks as neighbours interacted in regional social networks. In a previous paper (Banning 2001), one of us hypothesized that PPNB aggregated settlement gave way, in the Yarmoukian or later, to a dendritic settlement pattern in Wadi Ziqlab, a valley that drains part of the northern Ajlun mountains into the Jordan Valley. Our subsequent research to test this hypothesis has uncovered more evidence for small Late Neolithic sites in that region, permitting us to begin to explore some of the implications of such a change (Banning et al. 2005, n.d). These are profound. We might expect that the smaller social units occupying farmsteads, rather than large villages, would need to maintain social and economic relationships with other units. There would be impacts on the exchange of goods and information, and on the environment in which agents learned technology and styles. This paper outlines some of our preliminary results and programme for continuing research into the social, economic, and technological interactions among small Late Neolithic sites in Wadi Ziqlab and its neighbourhood. \
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