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jarmo  

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  • Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo), located in modern northern Iraq, is one of the oldest Neolithic agricultural settlements in the Middle East. Excavations here yielded much information on human society's transition to sedentary agricultural practices. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Jarmo]

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