Nizzanim culture
The Nizzanim culture is a suggested archaeological culture from the Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant. It was identified in three sites spread over a small area on the southern coastal plain of modern Israel, including the type site of Nizzanim, Giv'at Haparsa, and Ziqim. The sites were studied by Ya'akov Olami, Felix Burian, Erich Friedman, Shmuel Yeivin and Yosef Garfinkel. In those sites there were no architectural remains but pits and floor levels with hearths. These findings seem to represent a pastoral-nomadic population, similar to the precedeeing population of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Ashkelon and the Qatifian culture. Garfinkel suggests that these settlement served as seasonal hunting or fishing campsites.
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archaeological culture
Concept
Q1937946
Pottery Neolithic
ORG
Q7570085
Southern Levant
LOC
Q2915532
coastal plain
Concept
Q801
Israel
LOC
Q3247173
type site
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None
Nizzanim
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None
Giv'at Haparsa
UNK
Q202898
Ziqim
LOC
Q4601328
Shmuel Yeivin
PER
Q2918851
Yosef Garfinkel
PER
Q585473
hearth
Concept
Q9056738
pastoral
Concept
Q128393
nomad
Concept
Q1190360
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
TIME
Q60956
Ashkelon
LOC
None
Qatifian culture
UNK
Q832778
campsite
Concept
Q96395929
Nizzanim culture
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country
country