Tell Khardane

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Tell Khardane
Locationnorth northeast of Amuq (Lebanon), Lebanon
History
Periods Heavy Neolithic, Neolithic
Cultures Qaraoun culture
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Tell Khardane is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture north northeast of Aammiq, Lebanon on the road to Chtaura. Several Heavy Neolithic flints including picks, scrapers, blades and flakes were found in fields that surround the tell mound. Many had been produced using the Levallois technique. [1] [2]

Heavy Neolithic

Heavy Neolithic is a style of large stone and flint tools associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-pottery Neolithic at the end of the Stone Age. The type site for the Qaraoun culture is Qaraoun II.

Qaraoun culture

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References

  1. Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 444–446.
  2. L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 29 August 2011.