Jarmo
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Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo) is an archeological site located in Iraqi Kurdistan on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city. For a long time it was known as the oldest known agricultural coummunity in the world, dating back to 7000 BCE. Jarmo is broadly contemporary with such other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the southern Levant and Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia.The site of Jarmo is approximately three to four acres (12,000 to 16,000 m²) in size and lies at an altitude of 800 metres above sea level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands.
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- Letters from the Field, 1950–1951 — Excavations at Jarmo — selections from four letters sent back to the Oriental Institute in Chicago by the site's excavator, Braidwood
- http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Qalat_Jarmo.html]
