The Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods settlements occupied from the seventh millenium BC.
See:
Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Harmen O. Huigens and Merel L. Brüning : A landscape of preservation: late prehistoricsettlement and sequence in the Jebel Qurmaregion, north-eastern Jordan - https://www.academia.edu/30559507
