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When discovered by archaeologists in 1952, it was dated at over 11,000 years old, making it the first and oldest public building even found. But its purpose and the motivation for erecting it has been debated ever since.

Now, using computer technology, Israeli archaeologists are saying it was built to mark the summer solstice and as a symbol that would entice people to abandon their nomadic ways and settle down.  We Have replicated the tower as much as we can in this build with the Infomation we could find, as you can see in this Picture we have used the Right material for this particular part of Jericho

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we had a little too much fun with these photos

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We built three different types of houses to represent the different times and changes in Jericho's society. The lower level houses represent the earlier days of the Jericho settlement and the basic tools and materials they would've had access to back then.

Moving up one level we see a slightly larger build of houses to show that as time went on, and more people came to the settlement, there would've been a greater need for larger houses to be homes for families and groups of people within the city.

The last lot of houses are the biggest also having more than one story inside. This shows the last stage of Jericho expanding as a settlement into a city. Many people would've come from all around to the city as a meeting point or somewhere to trade goods. This would've required larger and more houses to give a home to everyone in the city.

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we found that most villages had some sort of shrine that they either prayed to or did offerings, to their leader/religion/god. This is shown in our build inside of the temple just past the entrance.Other research into other settlements around that time shows that people of that time did have a 'god', or more than one, so it is highly likely that the Natufian people had one as well. This is represented in the temple as we don't know exactly how or who they praised so the temple is a good, all round thing while still representing that there was some for of deity for them.

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These solid, fortified and tall structures surround the village of Jericho. But not only one wall protects it, but two. Standing at about 4 meters built from mud, stone and brick, and the second inner wall standing at 3 meters.

As far accuracy goes, we achieved that in both height and materials used. We resembled what they used and what they were limited to back in the Neolithic period. The limited materials meant that the thickness of the walls was only about 40cm-1m thick, but differed in places.

The shape of the walls is also very similar; the thin oval shape is near replicated in our build. And lead it to looking like you were standing in the derelict town of Jericho.

The bible states that these walls was certainly a great feat of its time "Excavations there reveal that its fortifications featured a stone wall 11 feet high. At its top was a smooth stone slope, angling upward at 35 degrees for 35 feet, where it joined massive stone walls that towered even higher. It was virtually impregnable."

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We built a market district on the upper levels of the city, with roughly nine merchant homes and two outdoor stalls. I built this marketplace in the ideal way I saw it in the Neolithic age.

History theories point that the main demand, import and export were spices, wheat products and salt. I tried to make interior of this homes suit the sellers of each of this resources. The largest export provided to us from history was the salt, which came from the salt mines the city must of had. They were also able to extract salt from evaporating water, which was probably from the nearby Dead Sea.

When building these markets, I decided to make them a double storey house each. I considered doing this to provide markets and shops below, and accommodation on the upper levels.

The materials used in building the markets were sandstone, clay, and wood. These materials would of been used by the Neolithic people for houses that would last, seeing how strong most of these materials are.

Overall, I believe the market built fit into the settlement of Jericho, and was rather close to the information I had gathered.

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We had two plant farms and two animal farms in Jericho, both show resemblance to what the farms in the Neolithic Age could have possibly looked like.

The plant farms were mainly made up of wheat, barley and later on potatoes were introduced. A lot of the plants were wild but were planted inside and outside of the walls.

The domestication of animals was another big part in the farms, pigs, sheep, goats and cows were farmed.

The farms were built as accurate as possible and are a pretty good representation of what they looked like. Most of the plants were wild so they wouldn't have been in straight rows rather more spread-out. The animal farms where usually small rounded pens with stone walls, which is kind of like what we built. (Though we used a lot of imagination for that.)

Over all the farms turned out really good and fit right in with our settlement.