Shepherd Neolithic

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Shepherd Neolithic
Rayak North, Riha Station
Preceded byNatufian culture
Followed byPre-Pottery Neolithic A
Rayak North
Riha Station
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Map of Lebanon
showing important sites that were occupied in the Shepherd Neolithic (clickable map)
A shepherd with sheep on a mountainside. Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated by humankind; the domestication date is estimated to fall between nine and eleven thousand years ago in Mesopotamia.[1][2][3][4]Henri Fleisch suggested that the Shepherd Neolithic industry could have been used by nomadic shepherds.[5][6]
The Stone Age
↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Paleolithic

Lower Paleolithic
Early Stone Age
Homo
Control of fire
Stone tools
Middle Paleolithic
Middle Stone Age
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Recent African origin of modern humans
Later Stone Age
Origin of the domestic dog

Epipalaeolithic

Natufian

Mesolithic

Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes
Tahunian
Heavy Neolithic
Shepherd Neolithic
Trihedral Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Neolithic

Neolithic Revolution
Domestication
Khiamian culture
Pottery Neolithic
Pottery
↓ Chalcolithic

Shepherd Neolithic is a name given by archaeologists to a style (or

archaeologist "Père" Henri Fleisch.[8] Lorraine Copeland and Peter J. Wescombe suggested it was possibly "of quite late date".[8]

Characteristics

Shepherd Neolithic material can be found dispersed over a wide area of the north

Epipaleolithic as it is evidently not Paleolithic, Mesolithic or even Pottery Neolithic. He further suggested that the industry could have been used by nomadic shepherds.[5][6]

The relationship and dividing line between the related

Rayak.[5]

Sites

The type sites of the Shepherd Neolithic are at

Rayak North, Riha Station and Serain
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References

  1. ^ Ensminger
  2. ^ Weaver
  3. ^ Simmons & Ekarius
  4. ISBN 0-313-31342-3
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  5. ^ a b c L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon,. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  6. ^ a b Fleisch, Henri., Notes de Préhistoire Libanaise : 1) Ard es Saoude. 2) La Bekaa Nord. 3) Un polissoir en plein air. BSPF, vol. 63.
  7. ^ Fleisch, Henri., Les industries lithiques récentes de la Békaa, République Libanaise, Acts of the 6th C.I.S.E.A., vol. XI, no. 1. Paris, 1960.
  8. ^ a b Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 43. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.[permanent dead link]