Amlaq Qatih or Amlaq el Qatih is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture that is located northwest of

Baaloul Baaloul (in Arabic بعلول, . Tr '' B'alūl '') is a town located in the western Bekaa Valley Lebanon. Geography Baaloul lies within the upper Litani river basin and is located along a mountainous area bordering Mount Lebanon. It is primarily ...

, north of

Qaraoun Qaraoun is a Lebanon, Lebanese village, 85 km from Beirut, known for its Lake Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley formed by the El Wauroun Dam built in 1959. It is an ecologically fragile zone in the Western Beqaa District. The village lies about 80 ...

, Lebanon. The site was discovered and collections made by Henri Fleisch and Maurice Tallon in 1955. Materials recovered were found to be of a cream-coloured, cherty type of flint and were suggested to date from

Acheulian Acheulean (; also Acheulian and Mode II), from the French ''acheuléen'' after the type site of Saint-Acheul, is an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture characterized by the distinctive oval and pear-shaped "hand axes" associated ...

, Heavy Neolithic and normal Neolithic periods and included a few Levallois cores.

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