M'lefaat is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in Upper Mesopotamia that was occupied during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. The site was first excavated...

6 mm/year and the region is considered to be fertile. At a site called M'lefaat evidence has been found of a small village of hunter-gatherers dating to...

have given way to the first known sedentary villages in Northern Iraq: M'lefaat, Qermez Dere and Nemrik. These are located at the junction of the Zagros...

the oldest occupation of the nearby open-air site Zawi Chemi Shanidar. M'lefaat on the Khazir River (a tributary to the Great Zab) was a small village...

the first time. In Iraq, this period has been excavated at sites like M'lefaat and Nemrik 9. The following Neolithic period, PPNB, is represented by rectangular...

Baghdad Bakr Awa Ginnig Gird-î Qalrakh Hatra Idu Isin Jarmo Karim-Shehir M'lefaat Mardaman Nemrik 9 Nimrud Nineveh Puzrish-Dagan Samarra Shanidar Tell Abada...

Heritage Key. Retrieved 4 August 2010. Kozłowski, Stefan Karol (1998). "M'lefaat: Early Neolithic Site in Northern Irak". Cahiers de l'Euphrate. 8: 179–273...

are similar to those recovered from nearby sites such as Qermez Dere and M'lefaat. The pottery from the latest level has been described as a "monotone prototype...