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Tell Ramad
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.8200–7000 BCE) · PPNB (Damascus basin)
Anti-Lebanon PPNB village (c.8200–7000 BCE, plastered skulls, lime statues) 20 km SW Damascus.
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Tell Abu Hureyra
Late Epipalaeolithic/Natufian to Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Natufian-derived Neolithic; Euphrates Levantine
Two-period tell on the Euphrates now submerged under Lake Assad: an Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer village (c.13,500–12,800 cal BP) and a Pre-Pottery Neolithic village (c.11,100–9,300 cal BP) famed…
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Tell Aswad — Pre-Pottery Neolithic Skull Building
PPNB (8700–7500 BCE) · PPNB (Aswadian)
Damascus oasis village excavated by de Contenson 1960s–2008, oldest plastered skulls with wheat/barley and domestication evidence.
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Tell Halula — Euphrates Painted Pottery Village
PPNB to Early Halaf (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Halaf (Amuq)
Euphrates village excavated by Molist 1991–, key Halaf transition sequence with painted Ubaid sherds.