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Tell Zeitoun, the Glossary

Tell Zeitoun also called Tell Dnaibe, is an archaeological site southwest of Rashaya in Lebanon at an altitude of.^[1]

11 relations: Arrowhead, Beqaa Valley, Byblos, Francis Hours, Hasbani River, Lorraine Copeland, Neolithic, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Rashaya, Tell (archaeology), Ubaid period.
1954 archaeological discoveries
Ubaid period

Arrowhead

An arrowhead or point is the usually sharpened and hardened tip of an arrow, which contributes a majority of the projectile mass and is responsible for impacting and penetrating a target, as well as to fulfill some special purposes such as signaling.

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Beqaa Valley

The Beqaa Valley (وادي البقاع,, Lebanese; also transliterated as Bekaa, Biqâ, and Becaa) is a fertile valley in eastern Lebanon and its most important farming region. Tell Zeitoun and Beqaa Valley are Great Rift Valley.

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Byblos

Byblos (Βύβλος), also known as Jebeil, Jbeil or Jubayl (Jubayl, locally Jbeil; 𐤂𐤁𐤋,, probably Gebal), is an ancient city in the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate of Lebanon. Tell Zeitoun and Byblos are archaeological sites in Lebanon.

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Francis Hours

Reverend Father Francis Hours, born 1921 in France and died 1987, was a French Jesuit archaeologist known for his work on prehistory in the Levant.

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Hasbani River

The Hasbani (الحاصباني / ALA-LC: al-Ḥāṣbānī; חצבני Ḥatzbaní) or Snir Stream (נחל שניר / Nahal Sənir), is the major tributary of the Jordan River.

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Lorraine Copeland

Lorraine Copeland (born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, 1921April 2013) was a British archaeologist specialising in the Palaeolithic period of the Near East.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, a Neolithic culture centered in upper Mesopotamia and the Levant, dating to years ago, that is, 8800–6500 BC.

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Rashaya

Rashaya, Rachaya, Rashaiya, Rashayya or Rachaiya (راشيا), also known as Rashaya al-Wadi or Rachaya el-Wadi (and variations), is a town of the Rashaya District in the west of the Beqaa Government of Lebanon. Tell Zeitoun and Rashaya are archaeological sites in Lebanon.

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Tell (archaeology)

In archaeology a tell (borrowed into English from تَلّ,, "mound" or "small hill") is an artificial topographical feature, a mound consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the same site, the refuse of generations of people who built and inhabited them and natural sediment.

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