Moukhtara
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Place details
- Locality
- مختارة
- Region
- محافظة جبل لبنان
- Country
- لبنان
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Moukhtara
- Ancient site.image
- HARVEY(1861) p008 PALACE OF SAID BAG JUMBULAH AT MOKTARAH.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861
- Ancient site.map_type
- Lebanon
- Ancient site.location
- 30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon
- Ancient site.region
- Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
- Ancient site.part_of
- Settlement
- Ancient site.material
- tools, flint, bone, ceramics
- Ancient site.epochs
- PPNB, Neolithic
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1963
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- J. Cauvin
- Ancient site.condition
- ruins
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Moukhtara () is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Maronites. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.
== History == It is also an ancient archaeological site, excavated in 1963 by Jacques Cauvin who found an abundance of flint tools. Examinations were conducted on 378 artifacts with finds including daggers, arrowheads, sickles, axes, chisels, picks and awls traced to the Neolithic horizon. James Mellaart suggested that Heavy Neolithic tools and weapons found at the site were "not associated with pottery, and possibly earlier than the Pottery Neolithic of Byblos."
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