The site of Tell Sukas was identified as ancient Shukshu (Šukšu), which was mentioned in the Ugarit tablets. The site was inhabited since ca the seventh or sixth millennium BC. The Neolithic is seperated from the Chalcolithic level by a hiatus.
See:
- Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-796
- Andrew Michael Tangye Moore: Tell Sukas in Syria: The Neolithic Period through the Present. In: The Neolithic of the Levant, 1978, pp. 302-304 - http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Sukas.html
- The Neolithic of the Levant (1978) A.M.T. Moore (Oxford University) Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy- http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Sukas.html
- Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Volume 4. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995, p. 272
- Ali Abou Assaf, in: “Syria: Syria in the Iron Age,” pp.131–34 in Eric M. Meyers (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, Vol.5. New York: Oxford University Press 1997.