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)

Title

Palestine Exploration Quarterly

Publisher

Palestine Exploration Fund

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

0.72

Publication Type

Both (Printed and Online)

Volume

154

Year

2022

Pages

1