Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo) is an archeological site located in northern Iraq on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city. For a long time it was known as the oldest known agricultural coummunity in the world, dating back to 7000 BCE. It is also one of the oldest Neolithic village sites to be excavated. It was first found in 1940s by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities, which later the site to Robert John Braidwood of the Oriental Institute of University of Chicago. According to Braidwood, there were approximately 100 to 150 people who lived in the village. Twenty permanent mud-walled houses with stone foundation, tauf walls, and reed bedding, housed the residents of Jarmo. the people reaped their grain with stone sickles, stored their food in stone bowls, and possessed domesticated goats, sheep, and dogs. Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... The Zagros Mountains are Irans second largest range in terms of area covered. ... Kirkuk city centre. ... (8th millennium BC – 7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – other millennia) // Events Circa 7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia. ... An array of Neolithic artefacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Scotland, Europes most complete Neolithic village. ... Robert John Braidwood Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907–2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory. ... The Oriental Institute (OI) is the University of Chicagos archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern studies. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... Houses in Fishpool Street, St Albans, England For other meanings of the word house, see House (disambiguation). ... The word grain has several meanings, most being descriptive of a small piece or particle. ... Domesticated animals, plants, and other organisms are those whose collective behavior, life cycle, or physiology has been altered as a result of their breeding and living conditions being under human control for multiple generations. ... For the animal, see goat. ... Species See text. ... The term Dogs, when used by itself can refer to: The plural of dog Dogs, a song by Pink Floyd This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

Jarmo is broadly contemporary with such other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the southern Levant and Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia.The site of Jarmo is approximately three to four acres (12,000 to 16,000 m²) in size and lies at an altitude of 800 metres above sea level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands. An array of Neolithic artefacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Scotland, Europes most complete Neolithic village. ... Jericho (Arabic (help· info); ʼArīḥā; Hebrew (help· info); Standard Hebrew YÉ™riḥo; Tiberian Hebrew YÉ™rîḫô, YÉ™rîḥô, Greek Ίεριχώ = Ίερή ηχώ, HierÄ“ Ä“chō - Holy echo) is a town in the West Bank, near the Jordan River. ... The Levant Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ... Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without accent marks -- Çatal is Turkish for fork and Höyük is Turkish for mound) was a very large Neolithic and... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... The metre, or meter, is a measure of length, approximately equal to 3. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ... Binomial name Pistacia vera L. The Pistachio (Pistacia vera, Anacardiaceae; sometimes placed in Pistaciaceae) is a small tree up to 10 m tall, native to southwestern Asia (Iran west to the Levant). ...

External links

• Letters from the Field, 1950–1951 — Excavations at Jarmo — selections from four letters sent back to the Oriental Institute in Chicago by the site's excavator, Braidwood
• http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Qalat_jarmo.html]