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Jawa

Amman Governorate, Jordan
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About Jawa

Jawa is the website of the oldest proto-city improvement in Jordan, dating from the past due 4th millennium BC. It is positioned in one of the driest areas of the Black Desert of Eastern Jordan. The town became constructed via a set of perhaps 2,000 migrants coming from the North or East. They had a few information of urban lifestyles, in addition to hydrology. It prolonged over 100,000 m2 and consisted of a walled town and substantial earthworks to divert winter floods from the Wadi into a chain of reservoirs.

This work might have had to be finished via the first wintry weather after the organizations arrival; otherwise they might now not have survived the subsequent summer season. It is estimated the paintings would have taken a minimal team of workers of 700. The populace had massive herds of sheep, goats and some farm animals. Estimates based on bone counts imply there may additionally had been as many as 10,000 sheep and goats in addition to 800 livestock. There were also two hundred equids and 160 puppies. From seed stays it is obvious that a number of the water became extensively utilized for irrigation agriculture. The population ate barley, wheat, chickpeas, lentils and grapes.

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