Stable isotope geochemistry of pedogenic carbonate is a powerful tool to obtain information about paleoenvironmental patterns. Here, we study up to 18 cm long pedogenic carbonate pendants which occur in highly calcaric soils near the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Chuera in north-eastern Syria. Two of these pendants were selected for stable carbon (delta C-13) and oxygen (delta O-18) isotope analysis. The data (-9.0 to 2.4 parts per thousand for delta C-13 and 23.9 to 27.0 parts per thousand for delta O-18 values) suggest that the vegetation present in the area during carbonate precipitation changed considerably and generally consisted of a mix of C-3 and C-4 plants with temporary dominances of the latter. Three radiocarbon ages between 43 and 35 ka BP indicate that the pendants formed almost entirely during the Upper Pleistocene with high growth rates of 4.1 to 9.7mm /1000 a. Modern soils in the surrounding of Tell Chuera show carbonate precipitation in soil depths of about 40 cm, suggesting that the studied carbonate pendants were formed in similar depths. Today, the sampled pendants are found ca. 10 to 30 cm below the soil surface, hence topsoil was probably eroded, possibly due to agriculture. The tops of the remains of limestones, which serve as nuclei for carbonate precipitation, were capped. Porous surfaces indicate later dissolution of the pendants, which continues even to the lowermost part. We conclude that carbonate precipitation stopped ca. 31 ka ago, possibly due to changing local climatic conditions. Comparisons with other environmental archives show that the investigated carbonate pendants in the soils around Tell Chuera have the potential to serve as an useful archive for paleoenvironmental reconstruction.