Jarmo
Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo) is the name given to an important archaeological site in northern Iraq (Kurdistan), excavated in the 1950s by the American archaeologist Robert Braidwood under the aegis
of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Jarmo was a Neolithic Period village settlement in the 8th and 7th millennium BC, amongst the
first to engage in permanent farming. As such it is broadly contemporary with such
other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the southern Levant and Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia.
Located east of Kirkuk on the margin of a wadi
in the plain of Chemchemal, the site
of Jarmo is approximately 3 - 4 acres (12,000 to 16,000 m²) in size and lies at an altitude of 800 m above se level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands.
The settlement at Jarmo was aceramic, that is, without the benefit of pottery.
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