Village Settlements
The establishment of permanent or semi-permanent settlements, enabled by horticulture and early food production.
Core metadata
- ID: village_settlements
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -10000 (century)
- Region: Eynan/Ain Mallaha, Levant
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Agriculture (agriculture)
- Latrines & Waste Pits (latrines_and_waste_pits)
- Mud Brick (Sun-Dried) (mud_brick_sun_dried)
- Wells & Cisterns (wells_and_cisterns)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Eynan/Ain Mallaha (10000-8200 B.C.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, museum) • Supports: node
Locator: The Met essay dates Eynan/Ain Mallaha to 10000-8200 BCE and describes early permanent settlement in the Levant.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 72%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horticulture (horticulture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Horticulture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Basic Shelter (basic_shelter) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Basic Shelter is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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