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Map of Pottery Neolithic in the Southern Levant in Yarmukian culture Lodian (Jericho IX) culture Nizzanim culture The Nizzanim culture is a disputed archaeological culture from the Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant .1It was identified in three sites in the southern coastal plain of modern Israel including the type site Nizzanim , Giv‘at Haparsa and Hof Zikim which were studied by Ya'akov Olami, Felix Burian, Erich Friedman, Shmuel Yeivin and Yosef Garfinkel .2 In those sites there were no architectural remains but pits and floor levels with hearths . These findings seem to represent a pastoral - nomadic population, similar to the precedeeing population of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Ashkelon and the Qatifian culture . Garfinkel suggests that these settlement served as seasonal hunting or fishing campsites . The dating of the Nizzanim culture is unclear mainly because no stratigraphic relations with different periods have been observed. While Garfinkel proposes that it coexisted with the Yarmukian and Lodian culture, Avi Gopher and Ram Gophna do not accept the three sites as a distinct culture and consider it to be a variant of the Lodian culture. Only one proper radiocarbon date is available (5767–5541 BCE) but dates one of the sites to the time of the Wadi Raba culture (post-dating the Yarmukian and Lodian), but this is contradicted by the findings and most archaeologists agree this site should be dated to the Pottery Neolithic ( c. 6400 - 5800 BCE ).3
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Late Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant Map of the Nizzanim culture and other Pottery Neolithic cultures in the Southern Levant. Yarmukian culture Lodian (Jericho IX) culture Nizzanim culture The Nizzanim culture is a suggested archaeological culture from the Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant . It was identified in three sites spread over a small area on the southern coastal plain of modern Israel , including the type site of Nizzanim , Giv'at Haparsa , and Ziqim . The sites were studied by Ya'akov Olami, Felix Burian, Erich Friedman, Shmuel Yeivin , and Yosef Garfinkel . In those sites, there were no architectural remains but pits and floor levels with hearths . These findings seem to represent a pastoral - nomadic population, similar to the precedeeing population of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Ashkelon and the Qatifian culture . Garfinkel suggests that these settlement served as seasonal hunting or fishing campsites .
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Late Neolithic archaeological culture of the Southern Levant The Nizzanim culture is a suggested archaeological culture from the Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant . It was identified in three sites spread over a small area on the southern coastal plain of modern Israel , including the type site of Nizzanim , Giv'at Haparsa , and Ziqim . The sites were studied by Ya'aqov Olami (1906–1990), Felix Burian (1924–2017) together with Erich Friedman, Shmuel Yeivin (1896–1982), and Yosef Garfinkel (b. 1956). At those sites, there were no architectural remains but pits and floor levels with hearths . These findings seem to represent a pastoral - nomadic population, similar to the precedeeing population of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Ashkelon and the Qatifian culture . Garfinkel suggests that these settlement served as seasonal hunting or fishing campsites .
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disputed archaeological culture from the pottery neolithic of the southern levant
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suggested archaeological culture from the pottery neolithic of the southern levant
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