Jordan: Discovery of 9000-year-old Shrine
- At a remote Neolithic site in Jordan’s eastern desert, a team of Jordanian and French archaeologists discovered a 9,000-year-old shrine.
- The ritual complex was discovered beside large structures which are known as desert kites or mass traps. These traps were thought to have been used to gather wild gazelles for killing in a Neolithic campground.
- These traps are made up of two or more long stone walls converging toward an enclosure and are found all over the Middle East’s deserts.
- This site is unique because even being 9000 years old it is almost intact.
- Two carved standing stones with anthropomorphic figures, one with a representation of the desert kite as well as an altar, hearth, marine shells, and a miniature model of the gazelle trap, were found within the shrine.
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