The main road into the village is next to the houses on the side of the hill. Specifically, there is a nearby cave that was used by our ancient ancestors. The cave lies on the northern bank of Wadi Al Natuf, in the Ramallah area. It was formed by karastic activity. Here were first discovered the remains of the Natufian culture that was named after the Wadi.
Natufian culture is defined by an assemblage which includes microlithic components of complex tools.
Natufians may have moved within a territory to exploit their resources most effectively but they certainly maintained base villages. Considering the small size of these sites, archeologists agree that the occupation must have been for a considerable time. Shuqba, like the rest of Palestine, was once part of the Roman Empire, then the Islamic Empire, the Ottoman Empire and earlier this century, a British Mandate that ended in 1948. Until 1948, Shuqba was part of Al-Ramla district. During the 1948 war, Zionists occupied most of the district except for a handful of villages in the far east and the Latrun salient.