He added that the spread of diseases prompted these people to isolate animals away from their dwellings, and they did not bury their dead relatives in their dwellings as in previous periods, as they learned to expand and spread. He explained that the excavation mission collects all information about human activities in that time period, including the location of the dwelling, how it was built, where they collected and stored grain, and what they ate. Accompanied by a presentation, Muniz noted that these people built their dwellings in the slopes of caves in the form of a "coat" at the foot of the hill or mountain, pointing out that the floors of some of these dwellings were lime, while others were decorated, and they also modified the structure of the dwelling. He explained that the place where grain was stored, for example, was different from the place where fire, cooking, and food were made, and from the living space, and had wide openings for oxygen to enter and smoke from the fire to exit. He said th at the shape and size of the house depended on the number of residents in this village (settlement), noting that some of these dwellings in the time period (10 to 8 thousand years BC) had an area of about 250 square meters. The Spanish archaeologist spoke about burial sites and the discovery of bones placed in wooden boxes that were buried in the walls of the dwellings in order to maintain contact with the dead. He also talked about dwellings built at the Kharaysin site in the Neolithic period (7,000 BC), where external and internal courtyards were discovered, and there were drawings classified as abstract art and others of tree leaves, and these dwellings were almost buried in the mountainside, taking advantage of its steepness and proximity to water, which was about 50 meters away. Source: Jordan News Agency
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