It was initially discovered by Lorraine Copeland and Peter J. Wescombe in 1965 near the road from Beirut to Damascus, 5 miles from the border with Syria.
[4] Neolithic levels revealed evidence of stone-wall footings and a series of distinctive cream, lime-plaster floors.
Black, beige or brown flint was knapped at the site, and tools recovered included numerous scrapers, cores for blades, Byblos- and Amouq-point arrowheads, javelins, sickle blade elements, burins and borers.
The site is notable for finds of a type of precursor to clay pottery called "White Ware", or "Vaisselle Blanche".
This was made with a type of lime plaster mixed with grey ashes, which when fired it turned into a hardened, white material that resembles limestone.