Khiamian culture

Khiamian
Map of the Levantine sites with El Khiam points
Geographical range	Fertile Crescent
Period	Neolithic
Dates	c. 9700 – c. 8650 BC
Type site	El Khiam
Major sites	Azraq, Abu Madi, Mureybet
Preceded by	Natufian, Harifian
Followed by	Mureybetian, Sultanian, Yarmukian, Lodian, Nizzanim

El Khiam

Map showing the typesite El Khiam that was occupied in the Khiamian (clickable map)

The Neolithic
↑ Mesolithic
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Neolithic topics Neolithic Revolution (farming) Animal husbandry Pottery Metallurgy Wheel Circular ditches Henges Megaliths Neolithic religion Neolithic decline
↓ Chalcolithic

The Khiamian culture is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southwest Asia, dating to the earliest part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), around 9700 to 8600 BC. It is primarily characterised by a distinctive type of stone arrowhead—the "El Khiam point"—first found at the type site of El Khiam.