9000-year-old Necklace Handed over to Museum in Petra

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Surrounded by deep gorges, the Neolithic settlement of Ba`ja lies on a high plat
Surrounded by deep gorges, the Neolithic settlement of Ba`ja lies on a high plateau in the middle of the mountains of the Petra region in southern Jordan. Image Credit: H.G.K. Gebel

Archaeological subproject completed with participation by Freie Universität Berlin

An international research team led by Hans Georg K. Gebel, Christoph Purschwitz, and Marion Benz at Freie Universität Berlin evaluated and reconstructed the finds from a 9000-year-old grave. During excavations in 2018, the archaeologists found the richly decorated grave of an eightto ten-year-old child in Ba`ja in the south of what is now Jordan. In the grave, they found a necklace consisting of more than 2580 beads. Hala Alarashi from the University of Nice and Alice Costes and Andrea Fischer from the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart conserved and reconstructed the necklace. In October, it was handed over to the Museum of Petra, Jordan. Project manager Hans Georg K. ...

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