List of tells in Lebanon

In archaeology, a tell, or tel (derived from Arabic: تَل‎, tall, 'hill' or 'mound'),[1][2] is an artificial mound formed from the accumulated refuse of people living on the same site for hundreds or thousands of years. A classic tell looks like a low, truncated cone with sloping sides[3] and can be up to 30 metres high.[4]

Tells are most commonly associated with the archaeology of the ancient Near East, but they are also found elsewhere, such as Central Asia, Eastern Europe,[5] West Africa[6] and Greece.[7][8] Within the Near East, they are concentrated in less arid regions, including Upper Mesopotamia, the Southern Levant, Anatolia and Iran.[4]

Tells

This is a list of notable archaeological tells in Lebanon sorted by alphabetical order:

• Tell Aalaq
• Tell Ablah
• Tell Addus
• Tell Ahle
• Tell Ain Cerif
• Tell Ain el Meten
• Tell Ain Ghessali
• Tell Ain Nfaikh
• Tell Ain Saouda
• Tell Ain Sofar
• Tell Ayoub
• Tell Bar Elias
• Tell Beshara
• Tell Bir Dakoue
• Tell Deir
• Tell Delhamieh
• Tell Derzenoun
• Tell Dibbine
• Tell el-Burak
• Tell El Ghassil
• Tell El Hadeth
• Tell Fadous
• Tell Hazzine
• Tell Hoch Rafqa
• Tell Karmita
• Tell Khardane
• Tell Kirri
• Tell Jezireh
• Tell Jisr
• Tell Kabb Elias
• Tell Majdaloun
• Tell Masoud
• Tell Mekhada
• Tell Meouchi
• Tell Mureibit
• Tell Murtafa
• Tell Nahariyah
• Tell Neba'a Chaate
• Tell Neba'a Litani
• Tell Qasr Labwe
• Tell Rasm El Hadeth
• Tell Rayak
• Tell Saatiya
• Tell Safiyeh
• Tell Saoudhi
• Tell Serhan
• Tell Shaikh Hassan al Rai
• Tell Shamsine
• Tell Sultan Yakoub
• Tell Taalabaya
• Tell Wardeen
• Tell Zenoub
• Tell Zeitoun

References

1. "tell". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
2. Kirkpatrick, E. M. (1983). Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (New ed.). Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd. p. 1330. ISBN 978-0-550-10234-8.
3. Archaeology of Palestine, Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound, William Foxwell Albright, 1960, p. 16
4. Wilkinson, Tony J. (2003). Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 100–127. ISBN 978-0-8165-2173-9 – via Internet Archive.
5. Bailey, Douglass W.; Tringham, Ruth; Bass, Jason; Stevanović, Mirjana; Hamilton, Mike; Neumann, Heike; Angelova, Ilke; Raduncheva, Ana (1998-01-01). "Expanding the Dimensions of Early Agricultural Tells: The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project, Bulgaria". Journal of Field Archaeology. 25 (4): 373–396. doi:10.1179/009346998792005298. ISSN 0093-4690.
6. MacDonald, Kevin C. (1997). "More forgotten tells of Mali: an archaeologist's journey from here to Timbuktu". Archaeology International. 1 (1): 40–42. doi:10.5334/ai.0112.
7. Davidson, Donald A.; Wilson, Clare A.; Lemos, Irene S.; Theocharopoulos, S. P. (2010-07-01). "Tell formation processes as indicated from geoarchaeological and geochemical investigations at Xeropolis, Euboea, Greece" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Science. 37 (7): 1564–1571. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.017.
8. Kotsakis, Kostas (1999). "What Tells can Tell: Social Space and Settlement in the Greek Neolithic". In Halstead, Paul (ed.). Neolithic Society in Greece. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN 9781850758242.

Further reading

• Lloyd, Seton (1963). Mounds of the Near East. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press – via Internet Archive.