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Cards Term Mesolithic Definition 12000-10000 changing climate and local enviornments human shift to small game technology advances slow transition to sedentism wheat emmer and einkorn sheep goats pig cattle Term Emmer Definition big happy wheat Term Einkorn Definition smaller early wheat species Term Early Neolithic Definition 10000-8500 Levant: natufien Zagros: Karim Shahir Term Karim Shahir culture Definition 10,000-8500 b.c. different food sources, better for lentils, sheep, goats... later agriculture than natufien Zawi Chemi Shanidar (summer camp) Karim Shahir (small settlement) Term Natufien Definition ain mallaha nahal oren levant area early neolithic Term Zawi chemi shanidar Definition 10,000-8500 early neolithic summer camp out of the caves Term Transitional Villages Definition 8500-7000 fully sedentary villages, with domestication Abu Hureya Syria Jherico PPNA Cayonu Tepesi Ali kosh Term Abu Hureyra Definition 8500-7000 era, on Euphrates, permanent hunter gathereres gradually turn farmers/domesticated herders. Human skull cult like Jherico Term Cayonu Tepesi Definition Turkey anatolia region grill plan and cell plan buildings 8500-7000 transition village era Term Ali Kosh Definition outside of nuclear zone, elabarote burials emmer wheat and barley trans. vilalge 8500-7000 Term Jericho PPNA Definition 8400-7000, wall first built around slite w/tower agriculture lots of domestication, wall for defense or flooding unclear. Term Ain Mallaha Definition Levant, natufian culture early neolithic village, 10000-8500, emmer wheat manipulation, herding killing males, multiple people buriels, secondary buriels, art and expression no evidence of ranking ain ain-mallaha Term Nahal Oren Definition natufian culture, 10000-8500 early neolithic, specialized gazelle hunters, lots of gazelle, some cereal gathering, transition to sedentary life Term Jericho PPNB Definition 6800-6000, re-occupied after hiatusf rom ppna. craft specialization craft workshops long distance trade increases new prestige items ritual activity cult of the skulls structure with plastared skulls...no signs of pottery despite presense of complex plaster skulls Term Jarmo Definition 6500-5000. mountain village in zagros region iraq houses mud brick on stone no real planning some domestication near copper sources but no evidence for it at site half of the stone tools of obsidian from anatolia Term Catal Huyuk Definition ~7200-5400