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Tell es-Sultan / Ancient Jericho

Early Neolithic settlement phase, c. 10,500-7000 BCE · Palestine

This phase of the spring-fed settlement includes early walls and a tower; Tell es-Sultan's occupation continued beyond the range represented here.

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How the setting appeared

Round mudbrick houses clustered near a powerful spring; later a substantial stone wall and tower transformed the settlement edge.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Residents combined cultivation, gathered foods and hunting while maintaining built homes over generations.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Mudbrick building, stone construction, storage and food processing organized daily labor.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Plastered skulls and household deposits indicate relationships with the dead, though exact beliefs remain debated.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: West Asia · Palestine
Languages and scripts: Not named in this record
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: A permanent spring-side settlement developed during the 10th-9th millennia BCE.; A stone wall and tower were constructed during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, c. 9000-8500 BCE.; The settlement expanded during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, c. 8500-7000 BCE.
Evidence confidence (generic fallback): No record-specific confidence statement is registered. This generic fallback identifies a metadata gap; it is not an evidence assessment.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Dates, place, language, people and events; missing confidence metadata disclosed · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-JERICHOCIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-CORE-JERICHO

Tell es-Sultan / Ancient Jericho: record evidence guide

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1687/

whc.unesco.org

CIT-CORE001-JERICHO-UNESCO-PROJECT

The Conservation and Management of Tell es-Sultan

https://core.unesco.org/en/project/534PAL4001

UNESCO

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