Jarmo

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Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo) is an archeological site located in northern Iraq on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city. For a long time it was known as the oldest known agricultural coummunity in the world, dating back to 7000 BCE. It is also one of the oldest Neolithic village sites to be excavated. It was first found in 1940s by the Iraqi Directorate of Antiquities, which later the site to Robert John Braidwood of the Oriental Institute of University of Chicago. According to Braidwood, there were approximately 100 to 150 people who lived in the village. Twenty permanent mud-walled houses with stone foundation, tauf walls, and reed bedding, housed the residents of Jarmo. the people reaped their grain with stone sickles, stored their food in stone bowls, and possessed domesticated goats, sheep, and dogs.

Jarmo is broadly contemporary with such other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the southern Levant and Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia.The site of Jarmo is approximately three to four acres (12,000 to 16,000 m²) in size and lies at an altitude of 800 metres above sea level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands. [

External links

• Letters from the Field, 1950–1951 — Excavations at Jarmo — selections from four letters sent back to the Oriental Institute in Chicago by the site's excavator, Braidwood
• http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Qalat_jarmo.html]ar:قلعة جرمو