Editing Neolithic (section)

==== Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ====
{{main|Pre-Pottery Neolithic B}}
[[File:Neolitico B, fugurine maschile e femminile, da tell fakhariyah, alabastro, bitume e pietra, 9000-7000 ac ca.jpg|left|thumb|Female and male figurines; 9000–7000 BC; [[gypsum]] with [[bitumen]] and stone inlays; from [[Tell Fekheriye]] ([[Al-Hasakah Governorate]] of [[Syria]]); [[University of Chicago Oriental Institute]] (USA)]]
The Neolithic 2 (PPNB) began around 8800&nbsp;BC according to the [[ASPRO chronology]] in the Levant ([[Tell es-Sultan|Jericho]], West Bank).{{sfn|Bellwood|2004|p=384}} As with the PPNA dates, there are two versions from the same laboratories noted above. This system of terminology, however, is not convenient for southeast [[Anatolia]] and settlements of the middle Anatolia basin.{{citation needed|date=November 2016}} A settlement of 3,000 inhabitants called [[Ayn Ghazal (archaeological site)|'Ain Ghazal]] was found in the outskirts of [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]. Considered to be one of the largest prehistoric settlements in the [[Near East]], it was continuously inhabited from approximately 7250&nbsp;BC to approximately 5000&nbsp;BC.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/architecturebodyperformance/326.html |title=Ain-Ghazal (Jordan) Pre-pottery Neolithic B Period pit of lime plaster human figures |last=Feldman |first=Keffie |journal=[[Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World]] |publisher=[[Brown University]] |access-date=March 9, 2018}}</ref>

Settlements have rectangular mud-brick houses where the family lived together in single or multiple rooms. Burial findings suggest an [[ancestor cult]] where people [[Plastered human skulls|preserved skulls]] of the dead, which were plastered with mud to make facial features. The rest of the corpse could have been left outside the settlement to decay until only the bones were left, then the bones were buried inside the settlement underneath the floor or between houses.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}