# Canonical recap data for Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement Wars (9650)
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slug: ppna-settlement-conflict
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/9650/ppna-settlement-conflict"
title: Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement Wars
subtitle: Archaeological evidence from Jericho and Ain Ghazal reveals the earliest known defensive violence between settled communities, predating written history by millennia.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 9650-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 9650
decade: 9650
country:
name: Levant
slug: levant
summaryShort: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Near East, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 8,500 years ago,. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East, as the domestication of plants and animals was in its formative stages, having possibly been induced by the Younger Dryas.
summaryLong: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) represents the early Neolithic in the Near East, dating to c. 12,000 – c. 8,500 years ago,. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East, as the domestication of plants and animals was in its formative stages, having possibly been induced by the Younger Dryas.
lede: Around 9650 BCE in the Levant, people stopped hunting and started farming—a shift so fundamental it reshaped human civilization. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period marks when communities began domesticating plants and animals, abandoning the mobile life their ancestors had known for thousands of years. This transition didn't happen smoothly or everywhere at once; some settlements thrived while others failed, driven partly by climate shifts like the Younger Dryas cold snap.
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Early_Neolithic_sites_in_the_Near_East_and_South_Asia_10%2C000-3%2C800_BCE.jpg/1280px-Early_Neolithic_sites_in_the_Near_East_and_South_Asia_10%2C000-3%2C800_BCE.jpg"
heroImageCredit: Kavita Gangal , Graeme R. Sarson, Anvar Shukurov · via Wikipedia
importance: 85
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic"
  title: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- war
metaDescription: "Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: When the Levant's hunters became farmers around 9650 BCE, reshaping human society."
wikidataQid: Q1190360
taxonomy:
domain: military
eventTypes:
- war
canonicalClasses:
- conflict
- transformation
impactRadius: regional
velocity: gradual
predictability: emergent
intentionality: spontaneous
domainCoupling: multi_domain
lifecycleClass: transition
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260227073856/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic"
  capturedAt: 2026-02-27
  label: Pre-Pottery Neolithic
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic"
