🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Kfar HaHoresh
Middle PPNB · PPNB cult complex
PPNB cult and mortuary center (7500–6650 BCE) in the Nazareth hills, not a normal village but a regional feasting and secondary-burial site serving surrounding settlements.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Baja
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)
PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sabi Abyad (Balikh Valley Neolithic Mound Cluster)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B through Late Bronze (7550–1200 BCE) four mounds · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → Middle Assyrian
Tell Sabi Abyad (Balikh Valley Neolithic Mound Cluster) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh River valley, Tell Abyad District, Syria — Four-mound Neolithic village…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin
PPNA to Late PPNB (9000–6800 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNA → PPNB (Jericho–Yarmoukian continuum)
25 ha PPN mega-site on Zarqa River with earliest cremation and 6800-seed legume archive.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Kharaysin (Tell Kharaysin)
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qarassa North
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic (c.8500–6600 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine)
Leja PPNB megasite north lobe (c.8500–6600 BCE, corridor buildings, lime statues) on basalt plateau.