Flaoui or Fleywe or Flaoueh () is a small village located northwest of

Baalbek Baalbek (; ; ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut. It is the capital of Baalbek-Hermel Governorate. In 1998, the city had a population of 82,608. Most of the population consists of S ...

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Baalbek District Baalbek District () is an administrative district in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon, having the city Baalbek as its capital. It is by far the largest district in the country comprising a total of . Major towns of the d ...

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. It is located near the north–south road that runs from Bodai to Chlifa. A

Heavy Neolithic Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-Pottery Neolithic at ...

archaeological site of the

Qaraoun culture The Qaraoun culture is a culture of the Lebanese Stone Age around Qaraoun in the Beqaa Valley. The Gigantolithic or Heavy Neolithic flint tool industry of this culture was recognized as a particular Neolithic variant of the Lebanese highland ...

is located in the area on fielded slopes of a small valley facing the

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. It was discovered by

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and Frank Skeels in 1965 with materials examined by

Henri Fleisch Reverend Father Henri Fleisch (1 January 1904 – 10 February 1985) was a French archaeologist, missionary and Orientalist, known for his work on classical Arabic language and Lebanese dialect and prehistory in Lebanon. Fleisch spent years re ...

. Worked tools were found made from abundant nodules of

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, grey-yellow

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

. The material suggested to be Heavy Neolithic consisted of massive, rough cores and

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s with another group being found that showed resemblance to an assemblage termed by Fleisch the

Micro-Mousterian The Micro-Mousterian or Micromousterian is a name given by Alfred Rust and Henri Fleisch to a Palaeolithic industry of small stone tools.Stepanchuk, V. N. and Chabai, V. P., The criteria of the Micro-Mousterian industries determination. in "Arch ...

. The site was under cultivation in 1966.

Demographics

As of 2014, the town had 1,116 registered voters of whom 98.12% were

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References

External links

Flaoueh
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Flaoui on www.tiptopglobe.com
{{Portal, Lebanon, History, Asia Populated places in Baalbek District Archaeological sites in Lebanon Heavy Neolithic sites Neolithic settlements