Alternate name Jilat Periods PPNB Region Jordan | Type Wadi Cultures Neolithic | |
Area 150 square metres (0.015 ha) drainage catchment Archaeologists Andrew Garrard, Sue Colledge | ||
Wadi el Jilat is an archaeological site containing Wadi el Jilat 7, an early Neolithic archeological site 55 kilometres (34 mi) southwest of Azraq in modern-day Jordan.
The earliest domesticated grains of einkorn wheat known to humanity were found at this site and Radiocarbon dated to 9500 to 9200 B.P. (approx. 7500 - 7200 B.C.).
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