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Neolithic Tell aux Scies -- Dik el Mehdi II -- Saaideh

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The Neolithic of the Levant (1978)
A.M.T. Moore (Oxford University)

Chapter 4: Neolithic 2 (Pages 205-207)

Several surface sites in Lebanon should now be considered. Two of them -- Tell aux Scies and Dik el Mehdi II -- are near the coast. Tell aux Scies is in the dunes just south of Beirut and the main collections from it were made by Bergy in 1932. The site is now buried beneath rubbish dumps. Beergy also collected material from Dik el Mehdi II -- a site in the hills immediately behind Antelias a little north of Beirut. These finds were deposited in the Universite Saint-Joseph and have since been discussed by Cauvin ...

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