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The Akkar plain foothills are the location of several surface
archaeological
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
sites found between
Halba and
Adbe
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in
Akkar Governorate french: Gouvernorat de l'Akkar
, settlement_type = Governorate
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,
Lebanon
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.
The sites were found in
neogene conglomerates above the contour on Louis Dubertret's geological map and mentioned by R. Wetzel and J. Haller in 1945.
[Wetzel, R. & Haller, J., Le Quarternaire de la région de Tripoli. Notes et Mémoires de la Délégation Générale de France au Liban. Section Géologique, No. 4. Beirut, 1945.] The materials found were described as ''"Gros bifaces"'' along with other roughouts. The tools were originally classified as
Chelleo-Acheullean however
Lorraine Copeland
Lorraine Copeland (born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, 1921April 2013) was a British archaeologist specialising in the Palaeolithic period of the Near East. She was a secret agent with the Special Operations Executive during World War II.
Early life
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suggested them reclassified as a
Heavy Neolithic
Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-Pottery Neolithic at the ...
assemblage of the
Qaraoun culture
The Qaraoun culture is a culture of the Lebanese Stone Age around Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley. The Gigantolithic or Heavy Neolithic flint tool industry of this culture was recognized as a particular Neolithic variant of the Lebanese highlands ...
in light of more modern research.
References
{{Portal, Lebanon, History, Asia
Akkar District
Archaeological sites in Lebanon
Heavy Neolithic sites
Neolithic settlements