Joub Jannine

Joub Jannine
جب جنين
Shown within Lebanon
Alternate name Joub Jannine
Location Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
Coordinates
Part of Settlement
History
Periods Neolithic
Site notes
Archaeologists Henri Fleisch
Condition ruins
Public access Yes

Joub Jannine (Arabic: جب جنين‎ / ALA-LC: Jub Jannīn) is located in the Beqaa Valley valley in Lebanon.

Joub Jannine is the center of the Western Beqaa District, hosting the Serail, which is a main governmental building serving the area. Joub Jannine is surrounded by a number of villages. To the south there is the village of Lala, Ghazze to the north, Kamed el Lawz to the east, and Kefraya, known for its wine grape vineyards, to the west.[1]

Archaeological sites

Joub Jannine I is a small surface site brought to the surface through erosional activity of a stream.[2][3]

Joub Jannine II was first discovered by Henri Fleisch who presumed it to be neolithic. An abundant amount of flint was collected including nine hundred and forty four tools and one hundred and fifty two cores.[2][4] This was first reported to be a paleolithic industry by Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe.[5] A highly specialized archaeological industry of striking spheroid and trihedral flint tools was found at the site and published by Fleisch in 1960, termed by Copeland and Wescombe as the Trihedral Neolithic.[6] Little has been said about this industry or the ancient people that would have used these huge rock mauls in this area, at the dawn of agriculture, or what they would have been using them for.[7]

Joub Jannine III is a Heavy Neolithic site of the Qaraoun culture, 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south of the village where several flake scrapers were discovered along with flakes, blades and waste. [8]

References

  1. ^ Robert Joseph (1 December 2006). Wine Travel Guide to the World. Footprint Travel Guides. pp. 346–. ISBN 9781904777854. http://books.google.com/books?id=8G5aWddvUh4C&pg=PA346. Retrieved 30 April 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Fred Wendorf; Anthony E. Marks (1975). Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant. SMU Press. ISBN 9780870741463. http://books.google.com/books?id=2krJIQ1fwcEC. Retrieved 30 April 2011. 
  3. ^ Besançon, J. et Hours, F., Préhistoire et géomorphologie : les formes du relief et les dépôts quaternaires dans la région de Joub Jannine (Béqaa méridionale, Liban). Hannon, Beyrouth, vol. V, p. 63-95, 1970
  4. ^ Michael D. Petraglia; Ravi Korisettar (1998). Early human behaviour in global context: the rise and diversity of the Lower Paleolithic Period. Routledge. pp. 254–. ISBN 9780415117630. http://books.google.com/books?id=vPuer9Hnf5wC&pg=PA254. Retrieved 30 April 2011. 
  5. ^ Francis Hours (1989). Hommage à Francis Hours. Maison de l'Orient. http://books.google.com/books?id=gIwSAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 30 April 2011. 
  6. ^ Fleisch, Henri., Les industries lithiques récentes de la Békaa, République Libanaise, Acts of the 6th C.I.S.E.A., vol. XI, no. 1. Paris, 1960.
  7. ^ Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 43. Imprimerie Catholique. http://books.google.com/books?id=6YsRRwAACAAJ. Retrieved 21 July 2011. 
  8. ^ Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 444–446. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/185.html. 

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