Moukhtara

Moukhtara (Arabic: المختارة‎) is a small town in the Chouf District of the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon. The town's inhabitants are divided between Druze and Christians. It is the hometown of Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party.

This article is about the Lebanese town. For the capital of the Zanj Rebels, see Zanj Rebellion.
Moukhtara
Arabic: المختارة‎
The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861
Shown within Lebanon
Location30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon
RegionChouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
Coordinates33.658863°N 35.613877°E / 33.658863; 35.613877
Part ofSettlement
History
Materialtools, flint, bone, ceramics
PeriodsPPNB, Neolithic
Site notes
Excavation dates1963
ArchaeologistsJ. Cauvin
Conditionruins
Public accessYes

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.[1] 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."[2]

Literature
  • Cauvin, J., "The Neolithic Moukhtara (South Lebanon)," L'Anthropologie, 67, 1963, p. 489-511. (1963)
  • Cauvin, J. et Cauvin, M.-C., Des ateliers campigniens au Liban, in Mélanges R. Vaufrey, La préhistoire, problèmes et tendances. Paris, Éditions du CNRS, p. 103-116. (1968)

Footnotes
  1. HAÏDAR-BOUSTANI, MAYA,. LE NÉOLITHIQUE DU LIBAN DANS LE CONTEXTE PROCHE-ORIENTAL ÉTAT DES CONNAISSANCES., ANNALES D’HISTOIRE ET D’ARCHÉOLOGIE, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth., Vol. 12-13, 2001-2002, ISSN 1729-6927
  2. Mellaart, James, Earliest Civilizations in the Near East, p. 46, Thames and Hudson, London, 1965.
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