During the dawning years of civilization, a landscape in what is today Jordan was undergoing a transformation from an agricultural, residential one to a ritualistic one with an intense focus on the afterlife and communal events.

This is described in a paper that debuts the discovery of a series of ancient ritual structures, including standing stones, burial tombs called dolmens, and megalithic buildings that point to a reorganization of society towards the intangible and away from the tangible.

Located largely on a plateau, around 120 miles away from the capital of Aqaba, the site of Murayghat has been under excavation by archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen for the last 11 years.

It emerged after the decline of a truly Stone Age culture designated the Chalcolithic, which ex

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