Riha Station
Shown within Lebanon | |
Location | 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of Baalbek, Lebanon |
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Coordinates | 34°07′33″N 36°12′42″E / 34.125833°N 36.211667°E |
Type | settlement |
History | |
Periods | Shepherd Neolithic |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1966 |
Archaeologists | , |
Public access | Yes |
Riha Station is a hill with a thin, occupational Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site located between the villages of Chaat and , 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of Baalbek in Lebanon.[1][2]
The site was found by and in 1966, who collected some work flints that were passed to the Saint Joseph University, Museum of Lebanese Prehistory. The finds included small cores and flakes that were suggested to match Shepherd Neolithic typology.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b L. Copeland; P. Wescombe (1966). Inventory of Stone-Age Sites in Lebanon: North, South and East-Central Lebanon, p. 52. Impr. Catholique. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
- ^ Charles Dudley Warner (2002). In the Levant, Travels in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Gorgias Press LLC. pp. 163–. ISBN 978-1-931956-81-9. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
Categories:
- Former populated places in Lebanon
- Archaeological sites in Lebanon
- Great Rift Valley
- Beqaa Valley
- Shepherd Neolithic sites