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Baysamun or Beisamoun (, Beisamûn) was a small Palestinian village, located in the marshy northeast of . In 1945, it had a population of 20.Hadawi, 1970, p. 69. It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the 's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach.

Beisamoun is an important archaeological site for the Neolithic period, with two plastered human skulls, cremation signs and house floors found there. It stood in close proximity to another major ("Final Old Stone Age") site, 'Ain Mallaha.


History

Prehistoric and Bronze Age site
notes that Beisamoun disappeared under modern drainage systems set up by ; in the fish ponds created, remains were found that included houses and two plastered skulls.Kenyon, 1985, p. 29. Rectangular houses with plastered floors show striking similarities to those at .Wright, 1985, p. 30. These " pier houses" were also found in , Ayn Ghazal, and .Negev and Gibson, 2005, p. 232. A main period of habitation was during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B era, but also Pottery Neolithic and remains have been found.Khalaily and Bocquentin, 2008, Beisamoun (Mallaha)


British Mandate village
The population of Baysamun in the 1922 census of Palestine consisted of 41 Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table XI, p. 42 increasing to 50 Muslims in 11 houses by 1931.Mills, 1932, p. 105

In the 1945 statistics the population was 20 Muslims, with a total of 2,102 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 69. Of this, 107 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 1,817 for cereals;Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 118 while 133 dunams was non-cultivable area.Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 970, p. 168


1948, aftermath
It was depopulated during the 1948 War on May 25, 1948, by the 's First Battalion in Operation Yiftach in a Whispering campaign.Morris, 2004, p. 251

In 1992 the village site was described: "No traces of the houses remain. The site is occupied by warehouses for agricultural implements used by Kibbutz Manara, which had been established in 1943. The land around the site is cultivated and fish ponds have been constructed close to it."Khalidi, 1992, p. 438


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