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The domestication of water: the Neolithic well at Sha'ar Hagolan, Jordan Valley, Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yosef Garfinkel ,
Ariel Vered  and
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Yosef Garfinkel
Affiliation:
1Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel (Email: garfinkel@mscc.huji.ac.il)
Ariel Vered
Affiliation:
1Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel (Email: garfinkel@mscc.huji.ac.il)
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Affiliation:
2Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (Email: obaryos@fas.harvard.edu)
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Extract

A well in the Jordan Valley shows that the Neolithic revolution included an understanding of underground water and how to access it. The excavation of the well in longtitudinal cross-section is also something of a revolution in fieldwork.

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NeolithicJordan Valleyhydrologywaterwell
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Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 309 , 1 September 2006 , pp. 686 - 696
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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