Tell Ghoraifé

Tell Ghoraifé (Arabic: تل غريفة) is a prehistoric, Neolithic tell, about 22 kilometres (14 mi) east of Damascus, Syria.

The tell was the site of a small village of 5 hectares (540,000 sq ft), which was first settled in the early eighth millennium BC.

[1][2] A small, 2 square metres (22 sq ft) excavation was made on the tell by Henri de Contenson in 1974.

Tell Ghoraifé is closely related other Neolithic sites in the Damascus basin, like Tell Aswad and Tell Ramad.

It is an example of a site with a long sequence over a millennium where the study of the evolution from wild to domesticated barley has taken place.