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Gilgal I ((ヘブライ語: גלגל)) is an archaeological site in the Jordan Valley, West Bank, dated to the Neolithic period. The site is located eight miles north of ancient Jericho.〔(Farming began with fig trees, say experts )〕 The features and artifacts unearthed at Gilgal I shed important light on agriculture in the Levant.〔(Gilgal: Early Neolithic Occupations in the Lower Jordan Valley (The Excavations of Tamar Noy) )〕 ==History== According to the Bible, Gilgal is the camp where Joshua and the children of Israel first settled upon entering the Promised Land.〔(Ancient Gilgal Camp Discovered in Israel )〕 Gilgal I was first excavated by Tamar Noy in 1979. Further excavations were conducted by Ofer Bar-Yosef of Harvard University and Mordechai E. Kislev and Anat Hartmann of Bar-Ilan University. They found caches of selectively propagated fig seeds, stored together with wild barley, wild oat, and acorns in quantities too large to be accounted for even by intensive gathering, at strata datable c. 11,000 years ago. The dig also unearthed the remains of thirteen round buildings made of mud and rock.〔(Where's the historical Gilgal? )〕 Some of the plants tried and then abandoned during the Neolithic period in the Ancient Near East, at sites like Gilgal I, were later successfully domesticated in other parts of the world.〔(Mordechai E. Kislev, Anat Hartmann, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley, ''Science'' 2 June 2006: Vol. 312 no. 5778 pp. 1372-1374 Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley )〕 At Gilgal, archaeologists found ancient carbonized figs stored in an 11,400-year-old house which appear to be a mutant "parthenocarpic" variety, bred for human consumption.〔(Farming began with fig trees, say experts )〕 The figs discovered at Gilgal lack embryonic seeds, a mutation that does not survive in nature more than a single generation. This suggests that the fig trees at Gilgal were artificially maintained by planting live branches in the ground, a horticultural technique known as vegetative propagation. Some fig remains recovered from other sites in the Middle East appear to be of the Gilgal variety.〔(Ancient Fig Find May Push Back Birth of Agriculture )〕 Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) baked clay objects were discovered at Gilgal I, most of them figurines and symbolic artifacts. As some of the earliest ceramic findings in the Levant, they are of interest to archaeologists for their artistic, stylistic, symbolic and technological characteristics.〔(Technology of the fired clay objects from Gilgal I )〕 The Moreshet Foundation Israel (MHF Israel) is developing the Gilgal Education Center in the Jordan Valley, a center open to the public that will highlight the importance of this archaeological site.〔(Gilgal Visitors Center )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gilgal I」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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