Natufian sites

Jericho ( ; , ; Hebrew: יריחו) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. The city is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west.

archaeological site

system of two separate, but interconnected, karstic limestone caves 18 km north of Beirut

Yabroud or Yabrud () is a city in Syria, located in the Rif Dimashq (i.e. Damascus' countryside) governorate about north of the capital Damascus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Yabroud had a population of 25,891 in the 2004 census.

archaeological site in Syria

archaeological site in the West Bank

archaeological site

kibbutz in Israel

archaeological site in Jordan

Mureybet () is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria. The site was excavated between 1964 and 1974 and has since disappeared under the rising waters of Euphrates Lake. Mureybet was occupied between 10,200 and 8000 BC and is the eponymous type site for the Mureybetian culture, a subdivision of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). In its early stages, Mureybet was a small village occupied by hunter-gatherers. Hunting was important and crops were first gathered and later cultivated, but they remained wild. During its fin

cave in Israel

cave and archaeological site in the West Bank

Jairoud (; also spelled Jerud or Jayroud) is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located northeast of Damascus in the Qalamoun Mountains. Nearby localities include ar-Ruhaybah, al-Qutayfah and Muadamiyat al-Qalamoun to the southwest, Yabroud, an-Nabek and Deir Atiyah to the north and al-Qaryatayn to the northeast. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Jairoud had a population of 24,219 in the 2004 census. The city is also the administrative center of the Jairoud nahiyah which consists of four towns and villages with a combined populati

Shuqba () is a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located 17 kilometers northwest of the city of Ramallah in Palestine.

Arsal (also spelled Aarsal, Ersal or 'Irsal; ), is a town and municipality situated east of Labweh, northeast of Beirut, in Baalbek District of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. The population is predominantly Sunni Muslim.

human settlement in Lebanon

late Natufian archaeological site in Israel

Aammiq is a village in the Western Beqaa District in Lebanon. It is also the name of an archaeological site. ==Archaeology==

archaeological site in Israel

Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Mount Carmel, Israel

Archaeological site in Egypt

Hatula is an early Neolithic archeological site in the Judean hills south of Latrun, beside , in Israel, west of Jerusalem. The site is above the riverbed on a rocky slope in an alluvial valley. Excavations revealed three levels of occupation in the Natufian, Khiamian and PPNA (Sultanian).