Al-Natah

The town covered about 1.5 hectares with some 500 residents, protected by ramparts. The occupation dates from around 2400 to 1500 BCE, from the late Early Bronze Age to the early Late Bronze Age. The site may represent "low urbanization", a transitional stage between mobile pastoralism and complex urban settlements.^[1]

In the Early Bronze IIIB, the site was occupied from around 2400 BCE.

In the Middle Bronze (c. 2000-1550 BCE), the city was a walled oasis.

In the Late Bronze I, the occupation came to an end around 1500 BCE.

The excavation is conducted by a CNRS team led by Guillaume Charloux.^[2]