Heavy Neolithic

Heavy Neolithic tools of the Qaraoun culture found at Mtaileb I - Massive nosed scraper on a flake with irregular jagged edges, notches and "noses". Light grey and streaky silicious limestone.

Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-Pottery Neolithic at the end of the Stone Age.[1] The type site for the Qaraoun culture is Qaraoun II.[2]

  1. ^ Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 43. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Cauvin, Jacques. and Cauvin, Marie-Claire., Des ateliers "campigniens" au Liban. pp. 103-116 in M. Maziéres (ed.) La préhistoire probléme et tendances. Hommabge á Raymond Vaufrey. Éditions CNRS, Paris, 1968.

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