Moukhtara
Human settlement in Lebanon
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::summary Human settlement in Lebanon ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox ancient site"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Moukhtara |
| native_name | |
| image | HARVEY(1861) p008 PALACE OF SAID BAG JUMBULAH AT MOKTARAH.jpg |
| caption | The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861 |
| map_type | Lebanon |
| location | 30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon |
| region | Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate |
| coordinates | |
| part_of | Settlement |
| material | tools, flint, bone, ceramics |
| epochs | PPNB, Neolithic |
| excavations | 1963 |
| archaeologists | J. Cauvin |
| condition | ruins |
| public_access | Yes |
| :: |
::callout[type=note] the Lebanese town ::
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History
It is also an ancient archaeological site, excavated in 1963 by Jacques Cauvin who found an abundance of flint tools. Examinations were conducted on 378 artifacts with finds including daggers, arrowheads, sickles, axes, chisels, picks and awls traced to the Neolithic horizon. James Mellaart suggested that Heavy Neolithic tools and weapons found at the site were "not associated with pottery, and possibly earlier than the Pottery Neolithic of Byblos."
Literature
- Cauvin, J., "The Neolithic Moukhtara (South Lebanon)," L'Anthropologie, 67, 1963, p. 489-511. (1963)
- Cauvin, J. et Cauvin, M.-C., Des ateliers campigniens au Liban, in Mélanges R. Vaufrey, La préhistoire, problèmes et tendances. Paris, Éditions du CNRS, p. 103-116. (1968)
Footnotes
References
- [http://www.usj.edu.lb/mpl/pdf/1.pdf HAÏDAR-BOUSTANI, MAYA. LE NÉOLITHIQUE DU LIBAN DANS LE CONTEXTE PROCHE-ORIENTAL, ÉTAT DES CONNAISSANCES. ANNALES D’HISTOIRE ET D’ARCHÉOLOGIE, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth. Vol. 12-13, 2001–2002, ISSN 1729-6927]
- [[James Mellaart. Mellaart, James]], Earliest Civilizations in the Near East, p. 46, Thames and Hudson, London, 1965.
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