Baidar ech Chamout

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Baidar ech Chamout
Baïdar ech Chamoût
Village
Country Lebanon
GovernorateBeqaa Governorate
DistrictWestern Beqaa District
Baidar ech Chamout
Machgara, Lebanon
RegionBeqaa Governorate
Coordinates33°31′51″N 35°40′10″E / 33.530833°N 35.669444°E / 33.530833; 35.669444
History
PeriodsHeavy Neolithic, Neolithic, Paleolithic
CulturesQaraoun culture
Site notes
Excavation dates1952
ArchaeologistsHenri Fleisch, Jacques Cauvin
ConditionRuins
Public accessYes
Heavy Neolithic flint tools of the Qaraoun culture found at Mtaileb I - Massive nosed scraper on a flake with irregular jagged edges, notches and "noses".

Baidar ech Chamout, Baïdar ech Chamoût or Beidar Chamout is a small village located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of

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A later

assemblage was found thought to be similar to the Neolithic récent of Byblos consisting of adzes, rabots, chisels and cores. Another assemblage without any triangular points was tentatively suggested to date to the middle Paleolithic, although may actually be Neolithic. The area was under cultivation in 1966.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon, p. 158. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. ^ Fleisch, Henri., Nouvelles stations préhistoriques au Liban, Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, vol. 51, p. 564

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