Period · 8000 – 4000 BC

Neolithic Age

Jordan’s first farming villages appeared in the Neolithic, when people began to settle, grow crops and keep animals. Beidha near Petra, Ghwayr in Wadi Feinan, the cave of Iraq ed-Dubb near Ajloun and Qasr al-Jilat in the eastern desert are among the sites covered here.

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Neolithic Age You are here · 8000 – 4000 BC Bronze Age 3500 – 1200 BC Iron Age 1200 – 539 BC Edomite Kingdom c. 8th–6th centuries BC Classical Antiquity 539 BC – 636 AD Hellenistic Period 332 – 63 BC Nabataean Kingdom c. 312 BC – 106 AD Roman Period 63 BC – 324 AD Byzantine Period 324 – 636 AD Islamic Period 636 – 1516 AD Umayyad Period 661 – 750 AD Crusader and Ayyubid Period 1099 – 1291 AD Mamluk Period 1250 – 1516 AD Ottoman Period 1516 – 1918 AD Modern Period Since 1918 AD
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