Abu Hureyra, The Place Where Humans Became Farmers ...
· It sits on an artificial mound called a "tell", loed in Syria on the south side of the Euphrates valley, about 120 km east of Aleppo. The tell is a massive accumulation of collapsed houses, debris, and prehistoric objects accumulated over the course of thousands of years of human habitation at the site. The mound, which is nearly half a kilometer across and 8 meters .