[3] Dorothy Garrod studied the transition of Mesolithic to Neolithic culture represented in a cave on the northern bank of Wadi an-Natuf near Shuqba in 1928.

The name "Natufian Culture" was then coined to describe the inhabitants of the southern Levant at this crucial juncture in human history.

[7] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted that the houses of Kharbet Choukba were very roughly built; and that the village contained about two hundred inhabitants.

[9][10] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "A small village on high ground, surrounded with trees.

Israel has also confiscated village land for bypass roads, military checkpoints, and for the construction of an Israeli stone crusher.