Qaraoun culture

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The old Orient
The city gate of Nimrud
Timeline based on calibrated C 14 data
Epipalaeolithic 12000-9500 BC Chr.
Kebaria
Natufien
Khiamien
Pre-ceramic Neolithic 9500-6400 BC Chr.
PPNA 9500-8800 BC Chr.
PPNB 8800-7000 BC Chr.
PPNC 7000-6400 BC Chr.
Ceramic Neolithic 6400-5800 BC Chr.
Umm Dabaghiyah culture 6000-5800 BC Chr.
Hassuna culture 5800-5260 BC Chr.
Samarra culture 5500-5000 BC Chr.
Transition to the Chalcolithic 5800-4500 BC Chr.
Halaf culture 5500-5000 BC Chr.
Chalcolithic 4500-3600 BC Chr.
Obed time 5000-4000 BC Chr.
Uruk time 4000-3100 / 3000 BC Chr.
Early Bronze Age 3000-2000 BC Chr.
Jemdet Nasr time 3000-2800 BC Chr.
Early dynasty 2900 / 2800-2340 BC Chr.
Battery life 2340-2200 BC Chr.
New Sumerian / Ur-III period 2340-2000 BC Chr.
Middle Bronze Age 2000-1550 BC Chr.
Isin Larsa Period / Ancient Assyrian Period 2000–1800 BC Chr.
Old Babylonian time 1800–1595 BC Chr.
Late Bronze Age 1550-1150 BC Chr.
Checkout time 1580-1200 BC Chr.
Central Assyrian Period 1400-1000 BC Chr.
Iron age 1150-600 BC Chr.
Isin II time 1160-1026 BC Chr.
Neo-Assyrian time 1000-600 BC Chr.
Neo-Babylonian Period 1025-627 BC Chr.
Late Babylonian Period 626-539 BC Chr.
Achaemenid period 539-330 BC Chr.
Years according to the middle chronology (rounded)

The Qaraoun culture is an archaeological culture of the pre-ceramic Neolithic in Lebanon . The culture was discovered by Henri Fleisch and confirmed by Alfred Rust and Dorothy Garrod . Meat industry refers to this culture as schwerneolithisch ( Gigantolithic , wholesale Néolithique or Heavy Neolithic ) because of the large dimensions of the tools.

James Mellaart suggested dating the Qaraoun culture to a period before the ceramic Neolithic at Byblos .

Maya Haïdar Boustani found in a study that the chronology of the Qaroun culture is uncertain and requires further investigation.

  • ancient home of the Qaraoun culture.

  • Limestone ax of the Heavy Neolithic from the Qaraoun culture.

Individual references, comments

  1. ↑ in the Levant
  2. ↑ a b c d in southern Mesopotamia
  3. ↑ a b c in northern Mesopotamia
  4. ↑ Lorraine Copeland, P. Wescombe: Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, 1965, Imprimerie Catholique, p. 43 ( Memento of December 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Fleisch, Henri: Nouvelles stations préhistoriques au Liban , Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française, vol. 51, pp. 564-565, 1954.
  6. ↑ James Mellaart: Earliest Civilizations of the Near East. . Thames and Hudson, 1965, ISBN 978-0-500-29004-0 , p. 46.
  7. ↑ EJ Peltenburg, Alexander wat, Council for British Research in the Levant: Maya Haïdar Boustani, "Flint workshops of the Southern Beqaa valley (Lebanon): preliminary results from Qaraoun" in Neolithic revolution: new perspectives on southwest Asia in light of recent discoveries on Cyprus . Oxbow Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-84217-132-5 , p. 133.