Abstract
Based upon her excavations at Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) in the lower Jordan Valley, Kathleen Kenyon (1957) proposed a terminological framework for the early Holocene periods in the Levant: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B (PPNA and PPNB) and Pottery Neolithic A and B (PNA and PNB). Today this framework continues to form the basis for the periodization of the Neolithic sequence throughout much of the Near East.A decade later, in his seminal overview of the Levantine prehistoric sequence, Jean Perrot (1968) discussed the so-called hiatus palestinien, a period of over one thousand years, between the PPNB and the PN, during
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Concluding the Neolithic |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium BCE |
| Editors | Arkadiusz Marciniak |
| Place of Publication | Atlanta |
| Publisher | Lockwood Press |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781937040833 |
| State | Published - 2019 |