[1] Significant building occurred up to the point where the site was destroyed in a conflagration radiocarbon dated to 3400 - 3200 BC.

After a period of abandonment the site became active again, only to be violently destroyed at the end of the 3rd Millennium BC.

A large high-quality Middle Bronze II building was also found, dated to c. 1750-1550 BC.

In the strata from 1200 BC a settlement gap for almost a millennium before the place was repopulated as a garrison site.

[5] In 1990, J. M. Córdoba had identified Zalpa with Tell Hammam et-Turkman, and this suggestion was considered as possible by French scholars Nele Ziegler and Anne-Isabelle Langlois in 2016,[6][7] as well as Eva von Dassow in her recent essay published in 2022.