Pre-Pottery Neolithic

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Neolithic period archaeological culture cultural phase

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic was an early Neolithic cultural phase in the Near East marked by the emergence of settled farming communities, monumental architecture, and sophisticated stone tool industries before the widespread use of pottery.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Pre-Pottery Neolithic canonical	5
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B	3
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A	2
Near Eastern Neolithic	1
Neolithic Near East	1
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A occupation	1
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B occupation	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5229346 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Context triple: [Göbekli Tepe, culture, Pre-Pottery Neolithic]

A. Mesolithic period
The Mesolithic period is a prehistoric era between the Paleolithic and Neolithic characterized by hunter-gatherer societies using microlithic stone tools and adapting to post-glacial environments.
B. Copper Age
The Copper Age was a prehistoric period marked by the first widespread human use of copper tools and weapons, bridging the transition between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.
C. Early Bronze Age
The Early Bronze Age was a prehistoric period marked by the widespread adoption of bronze metallurgy, the rise of the first urban civilizations, and significant advances in social complexity and long-distance trade across regions such as Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant.
D. Woodland period
The Woodland period was a prehistoric era in North America marked by the development of pottery, mound-building, horticulture, and increasingly complex social and trade networks.
E. Neolithic Aegean
Neolithic Aegean refers to the prehistoric cultures around the Aegean Sea characterized by early farming communities, sedentary village life, and the development of pottery and stone tools before the advent of metalworking.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Target entity description: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic was an early Neolithic cultural phase in the Near East marked by the emergence of settled farming communities, monumental architecture, and sophisticated stone tool industries before the widespread use of pottery.

A. Mesolithic period
The Mesolithic period is a prehistoric era between the Paleolithic and Neolithic characterized by hunter-gatherer societies using microlithic stone tools and adapting to post-glacial environments.
B. Copper Age
The Copper Age was a prehistoric period marked by the first widespread human use of copper tools and weapons, bridging the transition between the Stone Age and the Bronze Age.
C. Early Bronze Age
The Early Bronze Age was a prehistoric period marked by the widespread adoption of bronze metallurgy, the rise of the first urban civilizations, and significant advances in social complexity and long-distance trade across regions such as Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and the Levant.
D. Woodland period
The Woodland period was a prehistoric era in North America marked by the development of pottery, mound-building, horticulture, and increasingly complex social and trade networks.
E. Neolithic Aegean
Neolithic Aegean refers to the prehistoric cultures around the Aegean Sea characterized by early farming communities, sedentary village life, and the development of pottery and stone tools before the advent of metalworking.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Neolithic period ⓘ archaeological culture ⓘ cultural phase ⓘ
characterizedBy	absence of pottery ⓘ ancestor veneration ⓘ communal buildings ⓘ domestication of animals ⓘ domestication of plants ⓘ early village life ⓘ emergence of agriculture ⓘ ground stone tools ⓘ increased social complexity ⓘ lime plaster technology ⓘ monumental architecture ⓘ naviform core technology ⓘ permanent settlements ⓘ plastered floors ⓘ plastered human skulls ⓘ projectile points ⓘ rectangular architecture ⓘ ritual architecture ⓘ sophisticated stone tool industries ⓘ
chronologicallyFollows	Epipalaeolithic NERFINISHED ⓘ
chronologicallyPrecedes	Pottery Neolithic NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	c. 6500 BCE ⓘ
follows	Natufian culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasImportantSite	Abu Hureyra NERFINISHED ⓘ Ain Ghazal NERFINISHED ⓘ Beidha NERFINISHED ⓘ Göbekli Tepe NERFINISHED ⓘ Jericho NERFINISHED ⓘ Kfar HaHoresh NERFINISHED ⓘ Mureybet NERFINISHED ⓘ Nevalı Çori NERFINISHED ⓘ Çatalhöyük (early levels) NERFINISHED ⓘ Çayönü NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPart	Pre-Pottery Neolithic A NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Pottery Neolithic B NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Pottery Neolithic C NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyprus NERFINISHED ⓘ Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Neolithic Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	c. 10,000 BCE ⓘ
uses	microlithic tools ⓘ milling stones ⓘ sickle blades ⓘ

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Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Göbekli Tepe → culture → Pre-Pottery Neolithic ⓘ

subject linked to: Gobekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe → period → Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ⓘ

subject linked to: Gobekli Tepe