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About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
...Jarmo, discovered in 1948 by an expedition led by Anthropologist Robert J. Braidwood of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, covers the area of a modern city block. Enough of it was excavated this year to give a good idea of life in the earliest farm days...
Garden of Eden. It must have been a peaceful Garden-of-Eden period. Jarmo had no walls, and its site was not picked for defense. The inhabitants made no heavy-duty weapons, only feeble flint arrowheads for hunting small animals. Jarmo's mud houses were about 20 by 20 ft., each containing three small rooms and a small courtyard. Between each of the huddled houses were two separate walls. This proves, says Dr. Braidwood, that the Jarmoites had a well-developed sense of private property. The village apparently had its big shots too. One house was much larger than...