Southern Levant (Israel, Palestine, and Jordan, see handout from beginning of term)

Coastal Plain
Jordan Valley
Negev and Sinai
Galilee
Eastern Desert
Transjordanian Highlands

Northern Levant (Lebanon and Syria, see handout from beginning of term)

Anti-Lebanon Mountains
Damascus Basin

Taurus Mountains
Zagros Mountains
Euphrates River Basin
Tigris River
Mesopotamia
Jazireh Plains (triangular area in between Tigris and Euphrates)

Terms and Concepts

Here are some terms and concepts you should be familiar with for the mid-term:

Domestication	Agriculture	Khiam Point	Hagdud Truncation
Naviform Core	Jericho Point	Byblos Point	Amuq Point
Pyrotechnology	Plastered Skulls	Textiles	Horn Cores
Megaron/Pier House	Differentation of Space	Sedentism	Sacred Space
Domestic Space	Consequences of Sedentism	Zoonosis	Dietary Changes with Agriculture
Exchange	Early Neolithic Storage Facilities	Competitive Feasting	Oasis Theory
Changes Accompanying Plant Domestication	Hilly Flanks	Changes Accompanying Animal Domestication	Pastoralism
Secondary Products Revolution	Population Pressure	Demography	Cereals and Pulses
Obsidian	Corridor House	Cell-Plan House	Tripartite House
Clay Figurines	Plaster Statues	Evolutionary Theory	Origins of Pottery
Pottery Technology	Tholos	T-House	Broad-Room House
Expendient Lithic Tools	Denticulated Sickle Blades	Village	Household
House	Pebble Figurines	Coffee-Bean Eye Figurines	Burnished Pottery

What Else to Study???

You should be familiar with...

• The major cultures/phases/industries of the Neolithic, including knowing the chronology (i.e., when these cultures began and ended, see top of page and your notes) and the type site for each culture.
• For each of these you should know:
• major sites (ones discussed in class only)
• major features
• site locations/settlement patterns
• site structure
• residential and non-residential characteristics
• burial and mortuary practices
• lithic and pottery technologies
• economy
• symbolic/ritual/artistic features
• your should also be able to talk about
  
• theories regarding the origins of agriculture
• consequences of agriculture
  
• consequences of sedentism
• origins of pottery

OK, so know that I have decided what to study, how much detail should I know???

Remember, I do not expect you to memorize everything we have covered. For example, you do not need to remember exactly what burials were found at exactly what particular sites for every Neolithic phase that we discussed, but you should be able to talk about the practice of skull removal in the PPNB with reference to a few sites (because we talked about it in detail) and how it differs from burial practices in the PPNC and Late Neolithic.