Khallet Michte
Archaeological site in Lebanon
33°07′01″N 35°24′57″E / 33.116944°N 35.415833°E / 33.116944; 35.415833Khallet Michte is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture located in the Caza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatiye Governorate in Lebanon. The two sites Khallet Michte I and Khallet Michte II are located in adjacent wadis on south facing slopes between a track and the main road between Bint Jbeil and Ain Ebel. They were found by Henri Fleisch and noted to contain both Heavy Neolithic and Acheulean flint tools which are now in the collection of the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory at the Saint Joseph University.[1][2]
References
- ^ L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon, p. 53. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
- ^ Fred Wendorf; Anthony E. Marks; Southern Methodist University. Institute for the Study of Earth and Man (1975). Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant. SMU Press. ISBN 978-0-87074-146-3. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
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Heavy Neolithic sites
- Aadloun II
- Akkar plain foothills
- Akbiyeh
- Al-Bireh
- Amlaq Qatih
- Ard Saouda
- Baidar ech Chamout
- Beit Mery II
- Bustan Birke
- Dakoue
- Dekwaneh II
- Douris, Lebanon
- Douwara
- Flaoui
- Fadous Sud
- Hadeth south
- Jbaa
- Jdeideh I
- Jdeideh II
- Jebel Aabeby
- Kamid al lawz I
- Kefraya
- Kfar Tebnit
- Khallet Michte I
- Khallet Michte II
- Khallet el Hamra
- Mejdel Anjar I
- Moukhtara
- Mtaileb I
- Nabi Zair
- Plain of Zgharta
- Qaraoun I
- Qaraoun II
- Rayak North
- Sarepta
- Sidon III
- Taire II
- Tayibe
- Tell Ain el Meten
- Tell Khardane
- Tell Mureibit
- Tell Zenoub
- Wadi Boura
- Wadi Koura
- Wadi Yaroun
- Wadi al-Far'a
- Wadi Sallah