Abu Hureyra consisted of two settlements: a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer village beneath a later farming town.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent academic sources including the lead excavator's 1992 Radiocarbon article and a ScienceDirect paper, plus Wikipedia. Minor terminological nuance: archaeologists use 'Epipalaeolithic' rather than strict 'Paleolithic', but this is a widely accepted simplification also used by sources like Smithsonian.
Sources
- A Comet May Have Destroyed This Paleolithic Village ... (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/viewFile/1538/1542 (journals.uair.arizona.edu)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618215011660 (sciencedirect.com)