Tell es-Sultan
Ancient Jerico/Tell es-Sultan is a an archaeological site and former settlement located northwest of present-day Jericho in the Jordan Valley in Palestine. The World Heritage Site the property is an oval-shaped tell, or mound, that contains the prehistorical deposits of human activity, and includes the adjacent perennial spring of 'Ain es-Sultan.[1]
By the 9th to 8th millennium BC, Neolithic Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan was already a sizeable permanent settlement, as expressed by surviving monumental architectural features such as a wall with a ditch and a tower. It reflects the developments of the period, which include the shifting of humanity to a sedentary communal lifestyle and the related transition to new subsistence economies, as well as changes in social organisation and the development of religious practices, testified by skulls and statues found.[1]
The Early Bronze Age archaeological material on the site provides insights into urban planning, while vestiges from the Middle Bronze Age reveal the presence of a large Canaanite city-state, equipped with an urban centre and technologically innovative rampart fortifications, occupied by a socially complex population.[1]
Tell Es-Sultan Media
Ancestor statue, Jericho, from c. 9000 years ago. Rockefeller Archeological Museum, Jerusalem.
The area around Tell es-Sultan in the PEF Survey of Palestine, drawn a few years after Warren's expedition
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan". UNESCO. Retrieved 9 January 2025. This article incorporates text available under the CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 license.