Shemouniyeh

Shemouniyeh
Shown within the West Bank
Alternative name Wadi al-Far'a
Location West Bank
Coordinates 32°17′37″N 35°20′40″E / 32.293722°N 35.344461°E / 32.293722; 35.344461
Type Tell
History
Founded ca. 9300 BC
Abandoned ca. 6000 BC
Cultures Qaraoun culture
Site notes
Excavation dates 1925–26
Archaeologists Francis Turville-Petre
Public access yes

Shemouniyeh is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture in the Palestinian Tubas Governorate in the northeastern West Bank, located five kilometers southwest of Tubas. It is located on a plateau over the north of the Wadi Fa'rah, a little north-west of Deishun. Nearby is the Qaraoun culture occupational site of Wadi Sallah. Large numbers of massive flint tools and debris from this factory site were found and linked to this little known culture that was identified at over 25 sites in Lebanon. Tools found included picks, adzes, borers and flake scrapers.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Moore, A.M.T. (1978). The Neolithic of the Levant. Oxford University, Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. pp. 446–447.
  2. ↑ Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre; Dorothea M. A. Bate; Arthur Keith (1927). Researches in prehistoric Galilee, 1925-1926, p. 108. The Council of the School. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
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