Basta (Jordan)
Coordinates: 30 ° 13 ′ 38 ″ N , 35 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ O Basta is a village in southern Jordan that becamefamousfor a prehistoric site. Like the nearby Ba'ja , itbelongs tothe PPNB and was settled around 9000 years ago. Basta is one of the earliest rural settlements in the region and shows a range of finds that indicate connections to more distant regions.
literature
- KW Alt, M. Benz, W. Müller, ME Berner, M. Schultz, TH Schmidt-Schultz, C. Knipper, HG Gebel, HJ Nissen, W. Vach: Earliest evidence for social endogamy in the 9,000-year-old- population of Basta, Jordan. In: PloS one. Volume 8, number 6, 2013, p. E65649, doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0065649 , PMID 23776517 , PMC 3679157 (free full text).
- Hans Georg Gebel: Basta II: The Architecture and Stratigraphy. Berlin 2006.
- Hans J. Nissen: Basta I: The Human Ecology. Berlin, 2004.
Web links
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