List of archaeological sites in Lebanon

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This is a list of archaeological sites in the Republic of Lebanon.

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There are many tells in Lebanon – artificial mounds formed from the accumulated refuse of people living on the same site for hundreds or thousands of years. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with sloping sides [1] and can be up to 30 metres high. [2] Tells are most commonly associated with the archaeology of the ancient Near East, but they are also found elsewhere, such as Central Asia, Eastern Europe, [3] West Africa [4] and Greece. [5] [6] Within the Near East, they are concentrated in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran. [2]

Tells

This is a list of notable archaeological tells in Lebanon sorted by alphabetical order:

Hellenistic and Roman sites

References

  1. Archaeology of Palestine, Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound, William Foxwell Albright, 1960, p. 16
  2. 1 2 Wilkinson, Tony J. (2003). Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 100–127. ISBN   978-0-8165-2173-9 via Internet Archive.
  3. Bailey, Douglass W.; Tringham, Ruth; Bass, Jason; Stevanović, Mirjana; Hamilton, Mike; Neumann, Heike; Angelova, Ilke; Raduncheva, Ana (1998-01-01). "Expanding the Dimensions of Early Agricultural Tells: The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria". Journal of Field Archaeology. 25 (4): 373–396. doi:10.1179/009346998792005298. ISSN   0093-4690.
  4. MacDonald, Kevin C. (1997). "More forgotten tells of Mali: an archaeologist's journey from here to Timbuktu". Archaeology International. 1 (1): 40–42. doi: 10.5334/ai.0112 .
  5. Davidson, Donald A.; Wilson, Clare A.; Lemos, Irene S.; Theocharopoulos, S. P. (2010-07-01). "Tell formation processes as indicated from geoarchaeological and geochemical investigations at Xeropolis, Euboea, Greece" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Science. 37 (7): 1564–1571. Bibcode:2010JArSc..37.1564D. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.017. hdl: 1893/16434 .
  6. Kotsakis, Kostas (1999). "What Tells can Tell: Social Space and Settlement in the Greek Neolithic". In Halstead, Paul (ed.). Neolithic Society in Greece. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   9781850758242.
  7. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2022-12-07). "Qalaat Faqra: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
  8. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2023-04-19). "Qasr Neba: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
  9. Meyers, E. M.; Brown, J. P. (2024-01-04). "Sidon/Col. Aurelia Pia: a Pleiades place resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
  10. Becker, Jeffrey (2020-08-04). "OSM location of Umm al-Amad, Lebanon: a Pleiades location resource". Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places. Retrieved 2025-01-27.

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