Editing Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (section)

== Extent ==
Work at the site of [[Ayn Ghazal (archaeological site)|'Ain Ghazal]] in [[Jordan]] has indicated a later [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic C]] period, which existed between 8,200 and 7,900 BP. [[Juris Zarins]] has proposed that a Circum Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex developed in the period from the climatic crisis of 6200 BC, partly as a result of an increasing emphasis in PPNB cultures upon animal domesticates, and a fusion with [[Harifian]] hunter gatherers in Southern Palestine, with affiliate connections with the cultures of [[Faiyum|Fayyum]] and the [[Eastern Desert]] of [[Egypt]]. Cultures practicing this lifestyle spread down the [[Red Sea]] shoreline and moved east from [[Syria]] into southern [[Iraq]].<ref>Zarins, Juris (1992) "Pastoral Nomadism in Arabia: Ethnoarchaeology and the Archaeological Record," in O. Bar-Yosef and A. Khazanov, eds. "Pastoralism in the Levant"</ref>

The culture disappeared during the [[8.2 kiloyear event]], a term that [[Climatology|climatologists]] have adopted for a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6200 BC, and which lasted for the next two to four centuries. In the following [[Munhata|Munhatta]] and [[Yarmukian]] post-pottery Neolithic cultures that succeeded it, rapid cultural development continues, although PPNB culture continued in the [[Amuq valley]], where it influenced the later development of the [[Ghassulian]] culture.<gallery widths="170" heights="170">
File:Jordan Amman 2013 0307.jpg|Left side-view of an Ain Ghazal statue from the [[The Jordan Museum|Archaeological Museum of Amman]]
File:Ain Ghazal Statues Jordan Archaeological Museum Amman Jordan0822.jpg|The [[ʿAin Ghazal statues|ʿAin Ghazal]] [[Polycephaly|bicephalous]] statues, c. 6500 BC.
File:Ain Ghazal statue frontal.jpg|[[Musée du Louvre]], Paris, Ain Ghazal statue frontal closeup
File:Side view. Double-headed human statue from Ain Ghazal city, Amman, Jordan. Pre-pottery Neolithic period B, c. 6500 BCE. Jordan Archaeological Museum, Amman.jpg|Right side-view of an Ain Ghazal statue
</gallery>