#neolithic farming

Pottery Neolithic: this period witnessed the advent of a full-blown Neolithic farming culture across the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond, with a full range of pottery creations to complement it.

Qaraoun Culture: almost outside of the Neolithic progression, the Qaraoun culture is largely undated, with evidence for it having been discovered around the site of the Canaanite city of Sarepta (now in Lebanon).

Yarmukian Culture: this derives its name from the River Yarmuk, in ancient Syria, but artefacts have also been found to the immediate south, in the Megiddo of the period around 6000 BC.

Fikirtepe Culture: this was an early copper-using culture in the north-eastern corner of Anatolia (today's Turkey), undoubtedly on the migrant route into Europe's Neolithic farmer territories in the Balkans.

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B: the PPNB marked the arrival of full agricultural domestication in the Fertile Crescent, a period which lasts longer than its predecessor and is divided by archaeologists into early, middle, and late phases.

Mureybetian Culture: the Mureybetian appeared as a sub-phase or regional variant of the PPNA on the west bank of the Euphrates (in today's Raqqa governorate of northern Syria), on a settlement mound or tell which is known as Mureybet.

Khiamian Culture: this succeeded the Natufian as a sedentary culture which emerged as the farming revolution was gradually taking hold, alongside the highly-localised Shepherd Neolithic culture.