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. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- A Comet May Have Destroyed This Paleolithic Village ... (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/viewFile/1538/1542 (corroboration)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618215011660 (corroboration)