El Kown was temporarily occupied during Paleolithic times by hunter-gatherers. Then abandoned ca 11 000 BC and re-occupied in the Neolithic Age. During the period 7000–6500 BC a large settlement was inhabited by sedentary people.
See:
- Sultan Muhesen, The Earliest Paleolithic Occupation in Syria, in Akazawa, Takeru; Aoki, Kenichi; Bar-Yosef, Ofer (eds.): Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia. New York: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 95–105