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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by kuschku on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:19AM (#28603896)
The city of Abu Herey was destroyed 10'800 BC, almost three millenia before the timeframe you just stated for the first cities.
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by pvg on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:40AM (#28604030)
Do you mean this site?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Abu_Hureyra

It's a unique site of possible early long-term hunter-gatherer settlement right in the middle of one of the regions in which agriculture was first developed. It also happens to be one of the first agricultural sites! The pre-agricultural populations we're talking about are a few hundred people, which feels a little short of a city.

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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by nl on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:05AM (#28604651)
Abu Hureyra 1 was hardly a city - more a collection of huts.

And it's one of the earliest examples of the transition from nomadic hunter gathers to more permanent settlements.

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