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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Damascene PPNB (Aswadian)
PPNB mega-village (8700–7500 BCE, ~18 ha at peak) in the Damascus basin/ Ghuta, irrigated by the Barada, considered the place of the earliest fully domesticated emmer wheat and barley in the world.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB to Late Neolithic (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic Yaumoukian /Halaf
PN white-ware hill village 7000 BCE — Veisselle Blanche & deformed skulls (Contenson).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8700–7500 BCE; phases I–III) · PPNB Levantine (Ghuta facies)
PPNB Ghuta village 8700 BCE — plastered skulls & earliest barley (Stordeur).