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Part of
  
Settlement

Excavation dates
  
1963

Excavation date
  
1963

Periods
  
PPNB, Neolithic

Archaeologist
  
Jacques Cauvin

Period
  
Neolithic

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Location
  
30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon

Region
  
Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate

Material
  
tools, flint, bone, ceramics

Moukhtara (Arabic: المختارة‎‎) is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are mostly Druze, with a Christian minority. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.

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Map of Moukhtara, Lebanon

It is also an ancient archaeological site, excavated in 1963 by Jacques Cauvin who found an abundance of flint tools. Examinations were conducted on 378 artifacts with finds including daggers, arrowheads, sickles, axes, chisels, picks and awls traced to the Neolithic horizon. James Mellaart suggested that Heavy Neolithic tools and weapons found at the site were "not associated with pottery, and possibly earlier than the Pottery Neolithic of Byblos."

Literature

  • Cauvin, J., "The Neolithic Moukhtara (South Lebanon)," L'Anthropologie, 67, 1963, p. 489-511. (1963)
  • Cauvin, J. et Cauvin, M.-C., Des ateliers campigniens au Liban, in Mélanges R. Vaufrey, La préhistoire, problèmes et tendances. Paris, Éditions du CNRS, p. 103-116. (1968)

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