Tall Sufan is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) site located about 1.5 km to the west of Nablus, Palestine. Limited excavations of the site took place in 1999 with students taking an active part. A more systematic excavation season took place during the autumn of 2020. Four squares of a grid of 110 5 × 5 m squares were excavated by a team from the Archaeology Department of An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. During the 2020 excavation a limestone sample saturated with carbon was 14C dated to cal BC 14952–13421 (2σ 95.4% probability) by the Marzeev Institute of Public Health NAMS of Ukraine. This is the first evidence dated to the Natufian cultural period (13000–9500 BCE) from this site— the period of transition from a hunter-gatherer to a sedentary, agricultural lifestyle. Evidence also suggests occupation of the site during the Late Bronze and the Iron Ages (1550–539 BCE)

العنوان

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

الناشر

Palestine Exploration Fund

بلد الناشر

المملكة المتحدة

Indexing

Scopus

معامل التأثير

0,72

نوع المنشور

Both (Printed and Online)

المجلد

154

السنة

2022

الصفحات

1