Jerf el Ahmar () is a
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
site in northern Syria, which dated back between 9500 and 8700 BC.
History
Jerf el Ahmar contained a sequence of round and rectangular buildings, which is currently flooded by the
Lake Assad following the construction of the
Tishrin Dam. For five centuries, the site was shaped by the
Mureybet culture, which had artifacts such as flint weapons and decorated small stones. The first transitions to agriculture in the region could be observed by the discovery of
wild barley and
einkorn. The first evidence of
lentil
The lentil (''Vicia lens'' or ''Lens culinaris'') is an annual plant, annual legume grown for its Lens (geometry), lens-shaped edible seeds or ''pulses'', also called ''lentils''. It is about tall, and the seeds grow in Legume, pods, usually w ...
domestication appears in the early Neolithic at Jerf el Ahmar.
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{{Neolithic Southwest Asia
Archaeological sites in Aleppo Governorate
Tells (archaeology)
Upper Mesopotamia
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Populated places established in the 10th millennium BC