Aammiq
Aammiq is a village in the Western Beqaa District in Lebanon. It is also the name of an archaeological site.
Archaeology
Natufian, Neolithic, Chalcolithic | |
| Site notes | |
|---|---|
| Excavation dates | 1963, 1965, 1971 |
| Archaeologists | M. Cavalier Jacques Cauvin J. Besançon & Francis Hours |
| Condition | ruins |
| Public access | Yes |
Aamiq or Aammiq II is an archaeological site southwest of
It was first excavated by Jacques Cauvin in 1963, then again by M. Cavalier in 1964, 1965 by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe and Jacques Besançon & Francis Hours in 1971.[2]
Two periods of inhabitation were found, the first period between 12000 and 10200 cal.
adzes, a long, polished plano-convex flint hatchet; many large flakes and blades and sickle elements. A fragment of a stalked arrow is the only trace of occupation between the periods, Chalcolithic occupation followed the older occupation at the edge of the marsh at Mallaha.[4]
The results of a
References
- ISBN 978-2-903264-53-6. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ Hours, F., Copeland, L., Aurenche, O., Les industries paléolithiques du Proche Orient, essai de correlation. IV. Épipaléolithique, L'Anthropologie, 77, 437-496, 1973.
- ^ Copeland, L. Wescombe, P.J., Inventory of Stone-Age-Sites in Lebanon I & II, Mélanges de l'Université Saint Joseph, 41/2 & 42/1, Beirut, 1965/66.
- ^ Copeland, L., Natufian Sites in Lebanon in Bar-Yosef and Valla (eds.), The Natufian Culture in the Levant, 27-42, 1991.
- ^ L. Hajar, M. Haı¨dar-Boustani, C. Khater, R. Cheddadi., Environmental changes in Lebanon during the Holocene: Man vs. climate impacts, Journal of Arid Environments xxx, 1–10, 2009.
External sources
- Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée - Atlas des sites du proche orient - Online Application
- Aammiq, localiban
Capital: Joub Jannine | ||
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