Jarmo
Çermo | |
The Neolithic village of Jarmo in Iraq, 2021 | |
| Alternative name | Charmo |
|---|---|
| Location | Sulaymaniyah, Iraq |
| Region | Mesopotamia |
| Coordinates | 35°33′21″N 44°55′49″E / 35.55583°N 44.93028°E |
| Type | Settlement |
| Area | 12,000 to 16,000 m2 (170,000 sq ft) |
| History | |
| Founded | c. 7090 BC |
| Abandoned | c. 4950 BC |
| Periods | Neolithic |
| Site notes | |
| Discovered | 1940 |
| Management | Kurdistan Regional Government |
Jarmo (Kurdish: چەرمۆ, romanized: Çermo or Qelay Çermo, also Qal'at Jarmo) is a prehistoric archeological site located in modern Iraqi Kurdistan on the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. It lies at an altitude of 800 m above sea-level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands in the Adhaim River watershed. Excavations revealed that Jarmo was an agricultural community dating back to around 7090 BC. It was broadly contemporary with other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the Southern Levant and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia.