Tell Abu Hureyra in the Upper Euphrates valley in Syria, nowedays drowned beneath the waters of the Lake Assad was a Late Epipaleolithic - Natufian settlement inhabited by the hunter-gatherers c. 11500 BC - 10200 BC, living in small round huts, cut into the soft sandstone of the terrace. The food storage pits were placed under the huts. They abandoned the site because of climate crisis. The second occupation started c. 9500 BC eventually with several thousand people.
See:
- Village on the Euphrat-http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/abuhureyra/statement.php
- A. M. T. Moore, G. C. Hillman, A. J. Legge: Kindle Store, Village on the Euphrates: From Foraging to Farming at Abu Hureyra. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 -http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/46342
- Steven Mithen, After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20000-5000 BC, Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2006