ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the life histories of residential buildings at Ayn Abū Nukhayla, a late-middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) site in southern Jordan, in an attempt to obtain an accurate picture of the relationship between the built environment and domestic activities. Ayn Abū Nukhayla is a single component site of the PPNB period and contains no earlier or later occupations. The chapter presents the life histories of residential buildings through the spatial analysis of refuse, including the ground stone tools. In contrast to the use of chipped stone tools or pottery for the identification of site-formation processes, less attention seems to have been paid to ground stone tools. The horizontal distribution of large ground stone tools, such as grinding querns/slabs, handstones, and worked cobbles, was also photographed at the site to make precise distributional maps.
