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Ras Baalbek I

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Type
  
Rock Shelter

Cultures
  
Neolithic

Condition
  
Ruins

Periods
  
PPNB

Excavation dates
  
1965-1966, 1970

Region
  
Beqaa Valley

Ras Baalbek I

Location
  
26 km (16 mi) North-east of Baalbek

Archaeologists
  
Lorraine Copeland, Peter Wescombe

Ras Baalbek I (Arabic: ورأس بعلبك‎‎) is a rock shelter 500 m (1,600 ft) east of Ras Baalbek in the northern Beqaa Valley in Lebanon. It sits north of the Wadi Teniyet er-Râs valley at a height of 1,000 m (3,300 ft). It was first discovered by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe in 1965-1966. It was later excavated by Jacques Besançon in 1970. Retouched blades along with a pressure-flaked arrowhead and a burin were found dated to the Neolithic period.

References

Ras Baalbek I Wikipedia