Pre-Pottery Neolithic

thumb|Terrazzo entryway on Beverley Street in Staunton, Virginia, U.S. thumb|upright|One of the most well known examples of terrazzo flooring is the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Terrazzo is a composite material, poured in place or precast, which is used for floor and wall treatments. It consists of chips of marble, quartz, granite, glass, or other suitable material, poured with a cementitious binder (for chemical binding), polymeric (for physical binding), or a combination of both. Metal strips often divide sections, or changes in color or material in a pattern. Additional chips may be sprinkled at

Sesklo (; ) is a village in Greece that is located near Volos, a city located within the municipality of Aisonia. The municipality is located within the regional unit of Magnesia that is located within the administrative region of Thessaly. During the prehistory of Southeastern Europe, Sesklo was a significant settlement of Neolithic Greece, before the advent of the Bronze Age and millennia before the Mycenaean period.

archaeological site in Syria

Early Neolithic period of history

Early neolithic plaster statues found in the 1980s at Ain Ghazal in Jordan

archaeological culture

archaeological culture

Neolithic archaeological site near Aksaray, Turkey

archaeological site in Syria

Ascalon or Ashkelon was an ancient Near East port city on the Mediterranean coast of the southern Levant of high historical and archaeological significance. Its remains are located in the archaeological site of Tel Ashkelon, within the city limits of the modern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Traces of settlement exist from the 3rd millennium BCE, with evidence of city fortifications emerging in the Middle Bronze Age. During the Late Bronze Age, it was integrated into the Egyptian Empire, before becoming one of the five cities of the Philistine pentapolis following the migration of the Sea Peoples.

cluster of 12 archaeologic sites in Şanlıurfa

thumb|Balıklıgöl in Turkey

archeological cave site in Israel