<P> Other finds included flints, such as arrowheads (tanged or side - notched), finely denticulated sickle - blades, burins, scrapers, a few tranchet axes, obsidian, and green obsidian from an unknown source . There were also querns, hammerstones, and a few ground - stone axes made of greenstone . Other items discovered included dishes and bowls carved from soft limestone, spindle whorls made of stone and possible loom weights, spatulae and drills, stylised anthropomorphic plaster figures, almost life - size, anthropomorphic and theriomorphic clay figurines, as well as shell and malachite beads . </P> <P> In the late 4th millennium BC, Jericho was occupied during Neolithic 2 and the general character of the remains on the site link it culturally with Neolithic 2 (or PPNB) sites in the West Syrian and Middle Euphrates groups . This link is established by the presence of rectilinear mud - brick buildings and plaster floors that are characteristic of the age . </P> <P> A succession of settlements followed from 4500 BC onward, with the largest constructed in 2600 BC . </P> <P> Jericho was continually occupied into the Middle Bronze Age; it was destroyed in the Late Bronze Age, after which it no longer served as an urban centre . The city was surrounded by extensive defensive walls strengthened with rectangular towers, and possessed an extensive cemetery with vertical shaft - tombs and underground burial chambers; the elaborate funeral offerings in some of these may reflect the emergence of local kings . </P>

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