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Hammamiya in Upper Egypt consisted of hut circles with storage and living rooms up to 2.00 m in diameter, and sunk into the ground to a depth of about 1.00 m. These hut circles may have had fenced ______.
yards
An Amratian site of Naqada in Upper Egypt consisted of a group of mud and reed huts similar to the Badarian site of Hammamiya. Naqada is located in Upper ______.
Egypt
Catal Huyuk, a Neolithic settlement in Anatolia, dated 6500–5000 BCE, was one of the world's earliest cities with mud-brick fortifications, houses, frescoed shrines, developed agriculture, and extensive trading in ______.
obsidian
Anatolia, synonymous with the peninsula of Asia Minor, is located between the Black, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas and today comprises most of ______.
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The city of Catal Huyuk, located at the foot of the Taurus Mountains in Anatolia, extended over 13 hectares and supported a population of 4000-6000 ______.
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Each house in Catal Huyuk was about 25 sq.m. with plastered walls and floors. The floors were covered with straw mats and the walls were decorated with simple geometric ______.
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The Early Neolithic Period was marked almost everywhere by a change from round to _________ buildings built of mud.
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Where shrine-like buildings emerged early in the evolutionary sequence they were usually planned in the same way as _________.
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By the end of the Neolithic Period these shrines had evolved as precursors of _________ temple architecture.
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A number of shrine buildings were found at ________.
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A small room with niche in which was placed a standing stone, may have been a _______ room.
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Yasa Depe had two rooms; the outer rooms decorated with wall paintings and contained with a ritual ________.
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At Beidha, the first huts were curvilinear in the Natufian tradition and up to 4.00 m. in diameter. The dwellings and storerooms were grouped in clusters within walled courtyards, and the whole village was surrounded by a ______ wall.
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Houses of the Shulaverie Culture at Imiris Gora in Transcaucasia were round or oval, 3.00 m. to 4.50 m. in diameter, and were built of mud-brick on ______ foundations.
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The Khirokitia culture in Cyprus built round houses in 3.00 m. to 8.00 m. in diameter during the aceramic Neolithic period. These houses were built on ______ foundations.
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At Ain Mallaha, near Lake Ullen, Israel 9000-8000 BC, there were about fifty (50) drystone huts on an open site of 2000 sq.m., most of them circular, semi-subterranean, and rock-lined, from 3.00 m. to 9.00 m. in diameter. These huts were constructed of reeds or matting supported on ______.
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At Ain Mallaha, some of the huts had stone-paved floors, and one had walls finished with lime plaster painted with red ochre. The settlement had a population of two and three hundred; similar huts were found at Wadi Fallah and Nahal Oren, and at Badha in Southern Jordan. The entrances of the huts were located on the ______ side.
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At Ain Mallaha, the huts were dug into the bank on the upper side to a depth of about 1.30 m. Some of the huts had stone-paved floors, and one had walls finished with lime plaster painted with red ochre. The settlement had a population of two and three hundred; similar huts were found at Wadi Fallah and Nahal Oren, and at Badha in Southern Jordan. The huts were constructed with entrances on the ______ side.
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