Civilisation

Jericho: an early permanent settlement

c. 9,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE

Tell es-Sultan preserves an early settled community, including a substantial tower and walls. Older deposits and later occupations extend beyond this selected phase.

Neolithic settlement · ninth to eighth millennia BCE

Rounded bounds for the ninth–eighth millennia BCE; not the full history of the site.

UNESCO · Ancient Jericho

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Why it matters

Settled life developed long before the city-states familiar from written history.

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Remember settlement before city: Jericho is an early chapter, not a universal first city.

Place it in context · 2 connected stories

Compare the whole dated phase. Overlap shows shared time; it does not establish contact or cause.

Overlapping in time

Göbekli Tepe: monumental gathering places

c. 9,600 BCE – 8,200 BCE · Monument-building phases

Different kinds of communal building in overlapping centuries.

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Çatalhöyük: houses before city-states

c. 7,400 BCE – 6,200 BCE · East mound settlement

Another early settlement, farther north.

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Tell es-Sultan preserves an early settled community, including a substantial tower and walls. Older deposits and later occupations extend beyond this selected phase.

Part of the Neolithic Revolution era

Open Era

Regions

Middle East

The cradle of civilisation — Mesopotamia, Persia, the three Abrahamic faiths, and a region of deep influence.

At a Glance

Datec. 9,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE

ScaleCivilisation

Importance7/10

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