Jebel Aabeby

Jebel Aabeby
Shown within Lebanon
Location 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Sidon, Lebanon
Coordinates 33°33′09″N 35°23′47″E / 33.5525°N 35.396389°E / 33.5525; 35.396389
Type terraces
History
Periods Heavy Neolithic, Neolithic
Cultures Qaraoun culture
Site notes
Excavation dates 1965
Archaeologists Henri Fleisch, V. Hankey and Lorraine Copeland
Condition under cultivation
Public access Yes

Jebel Aabeby is an archaeological site approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Sidon, to the west of the road north to Qraye in Lebanon.[1][2] The site is on a hill where a number of Cedar trees surround the Mar Elias monastery on the western side of the summit. A Heavy Neolithic assemblage of flint tools made by the Qaraoun culture was collected from some Olive terraces bordering on the road and from an area above them that was disturbed in the construction of a trackway. The flint was of a brown, Nummulitic, Eocene type, some having been patinated to white while others were found fresh. Several broad blades were found along with heavy scrapers on flakes, massive cores, rabots, racloirs and a few smaller scrapers. The material now stored in the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory was studied by Henri Fleisch, who concluded that the site was likely used as a prehistoric factory.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 93. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  2. Francis Hours (1994). Atlas des sites du proche orient (14000-5700 BP). Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen. ISBN 978-2-903264-53-6. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
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