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Engraved and Plain Bone Tools from Jiita (Lebanon) and their Early Kebaran Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

L. Copeland  and
F. Hours
L. Copeland
Affiliation:
LC, 21 Marlborough Place, London NW8
F. Hours
Affiliation:
FH, 20 Rue Sala, 69002 Lyons, France
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The rockshelter of Jiita II, known locally as Dahr al-Mghara, overlooks the wooded ravine of the Nahr el-Kelb (Dog River) about 8 km upstream from the present sea-shore and 15 km north-east of the centre of Beirut. The site is listed as ‘Jaita II’ in the inventory of Copeland and Wescombe (1965). The shelter faces south and opens onto a platform which interrupts the precipitous north bank of the ravine; about 180 m below the platform's edge, the subterranean branch of the Nahr el-Kelb emerges from a series of large caverns. The platform measures c. 175 sq. m, and was inhabited by a succession of Late Upper Palaeolithic hunters whose flint industries were mainly microlithic. Excavations have been conducted here since 1964 by one of us (F.H.) with emphasis on careful recording of finds dug in fine stratigraphic units by use of dental tools (Hours 1966; Hours and Chavaillon 1970; Hours 1973 and in prep.).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 43 , December 1977 , pp. 295 - 301
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1977

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