10,000 year old house and evidence of cultic temple in Judean foothills - The oldest artefacts that were exposed at the site are ascribed to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (10,000 YBP). “The large excavation affords us a broad picture of the progression and development of the society in the settlement throughout the ages. Thus we can clearly see that in the Early Bronze Age, 5,000 years ago, the rural society made the transition to an urban society.