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The earliest findings from a settlement on Tel Dan belong to the Ceramic Neolithic Age (5th millennium BC). Here archaeologists found large collection of tools as well as the remains of a sparse settlement, generally thought to have been inhabited by the Israelites during the settlement period (12th century BC). The earliest ritual artifacts discovered date to the period of Jeroboam (930 BC). Dan was settled continuously until the Roman period, when the center of settlement moved to Banias.