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When we hear the name Jericho, most of us think of the biblical story of Joshua and the walls tumbling down. But thousands of years before those Bronze Age kingdoms existed, a very different community lived near a reliable spring in the Jordan Valley. These were Pre-Pottery Neolithic farmers who had recently learned to stay in one place, and around nine thousand years before the common era, they undertook one of the earliest monumental construction projects in human history. Using only…
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