Tell Ramad

Tell Ramad (Arabic: تل رماد) is a prehistoric, Neolithic tell at the foot of Mount Hermon, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria.

The tell was the site of a small village of 2 hectares (220,000 sq ft), which was first settled in the late 8th millennium BC.

[3] Tell Ramad is notable as one of the few sites fundamental to the understanding of the origin of agriculture with finds including various types of domesticated wheat, barley and flax.

[4] Emmer wheat is an important characteristic of Basin sites in this area, where it is thought to have been introduced.

Laurisson Ward visited again in 1939 and collected material from the surface, now in the Peabody Museum.