Jabal es Saaïdé: Difference between revisions
Paul Bedson (talk | contribs) ←Created page with '{{Infobox_ancient_site |name = Jebal Saaidé |native_name = |alternate_name = |image = |imagealttext = |caption = |map_type = |map_alt = 1035 Metres |latitude ...' |
Paul Bedson (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
||
| Line 62: | Line 62: | ||
[[Category:Neolithic settlements]] |
[[Category:Neolithic settlements]] |
||
[[Category: Archaeological sites in Lebanon]] |
[[Category: Archaeological sites in Lebanon]] |
||
[[Category:Neolithic]] |
|||
[[Category:Epipaleolithic settlements]] |
|||
[[Category:Natufian sites]] |
|||
[[Category:Fertile Crescent]] |
|||
[[Category:Type sites]] |
|||
Revision as of 02:30, 23 February 2011
 | |
| Location | 8 miles from Baalbek, Lebanon |
|---|---|
| Region | Bekaa |
| Coordinates | 34° 09', 36° 13' |
| Part of | Village |
| History | |
| Founded | c. 8200-6200 BC |
| Periods | Epipaleolithic, Natufian, PPNB |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1966, 1969 |
| Archaeologists | Bruce Schroeder, J. Besançon, F. Hours |
| Condition | ruins |
| Public access | Yes |
Jebal Saaidé (or Saaidé I & Saaidé II) is a village and archaeological site 8 miles (12km) North East of Baalbek.
In the summer of 1966, the Lebanese Army dug a trench at Saaidé I, and recovered a large number of tools and lithics including sickles, grinders, scrapers, chisels, awls and blades suggested to date to the PPNB. J. Besançon & F. Hours later discovered a Palaeolithic layer below the Neolithic level, recovering knives, arrowheads, scrapers and retouched blades along eith a fragment of a small, flat, cutting axe.[1]
Saaidé II was first excavated in 1969 by Bruce Schroeder from the University of Toronto who found the site badly damaged by modern agriculture. Investigations have recovered a wide range of mortars and pestles, scrapers, chisels, borers, retouched microliths, geometric and non-geometric microliths. One grave was found with some tiny skull fragments from an adult aged 45-50 years. Local fauna consisted of turtles, birds (duck, goose, eagle) and mammals (badger, lynx, deer, ox, gazelle, sheep and goat).
Jebal Saaidé is the only pre-agricultural village found in Lebanon to date.[2]
Literature
- Besançon, J. Hours, F,. Une coupe dans le quaternaire récent. Saaidé I (Beqaa centrale, Liban), Hannon, 5, 29-61, 1970.
- Hours, F,. L'épipaléolithique au Liban. Resultats acquis en 1975, Colloque III, UISPP 1976, 9ème Congrès de l'UISPP, Nice, 130-196, 1976.
- Schroeder, H.B., Natufian in the Central Béqaa Valley, Lebanon, Bar-Yosef and Valla (eds.) 1991, The Natufian Culture in the Levant, 43-80, International Monographs in Prehistory, 1991.
- Copeland, L., Natufian Sites in Lebanon, Bar-Yosef and Valla (eds.) 1991, The Natufian Culture in the Levant, 27-42,International Monographs in Prehistory, 1991
- Ofer Bar-Yosef, François Raymond Valla,. The Natufian culture in the Levant, International Monographs in Prehistory, 1991.
- Soliveres, O., « Restes humains natoufiens du Jebal Saaidé (Epipaléolithique du Liban) », Paléorient, 3, p. 293-294, 1975-1976-1977.
- Churcher, P., « The vertebrate fauna from the Natufian level at Jebel es-Saaïde (Saaïde II), Lebanon », Paléorient, 20/2, p. 35-58, 1994,
Footnotes
- ^ HAÏDAR-BOUSTANI, MAYA,. LE NÉOLITHIQUE DU LIBAN DANS LE CONTEXTE PROCHE-ORIENTAL ÉTAT DES CONNAISSANCES., ANNALES D’HISTOIRE ET D’ARCHÉOLOGIE, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth., Vol. 12-13, 2001-2002, ISSN 1729-6927
- ^ Berytus: archeological studies, Volumes 17-19, American University of Beirut, 1968