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{{Infobox ancient site
|name = Tell Zeitoun
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|alternate_name = Tell Dnaibe
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|map_type = Lebanon
|map_alt = {{convert|900|m|ft}}
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|location = {{convert|8|km|mi}} southwest of [[Place:Rashaya|Rashaya]]
|region = Bekaa Valley
|coordinates = {{coord|33.466667|35.733333|display=inline}}
|type = Tell
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|built = 6900 - 5800 cal. BC
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|epochs = PPNB
|cultures = [[History:Neolithic|Neolithic]]
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|excavations = 1954, 1966, 1968
|archaeologists = Kuschke A<br />Lorraine Copeland<br />J. King<br />Jacques Besançon<br />Francis Hours
|condition = Ruins
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|public_access = Yes
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'''Tell Zeitoun''' also called Tell Dnaibe, is an archaeological site {{convert|8|km|mi}} southwest of [[Place:Rashaya|Rashaya]] in Lebanon at an altitude of {{convert|900|m|ft}}.

It is situated in the valley of the Upper Hasbani (Wadi el-Fatir) on the right bank, north-east of the village of Dnaibe, east of the road.<ref>Besançon, J. & Hours, F., Quelques sites prehistoriques nouveaux dans la Beqaa, Melanges de l'Universite Saint Joseph, 44, 75-84, 1968.</ref> It was first recorded by A. Kuschke in 1954 followed by Lorraine Copeland and J. King in 1966 and lastly by Jacques Besançon and Francis Hours in 1968.<ref>Kuschke A., 1954, Beitraege zur Siedlungsgeschichte der Biqa' 1, ZDPV 70 : 104-129.</ref> Besançon recovered a fragment from an [[Engineering:Arrowhead|arrowhead]] a pick or hammer and a serrated sickle blade. These gave a very slight dating, suggesting [[History:Ubaid period|Ubaid]] occupation equivalent to early neolithic [[Place:Byblos|Byblos]].<ref name="Hours1994">{{cite book|author=Francis Hours|title=Atlas des sites du proche orient (14000-5700 BP)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlZtAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen|isbn=978-2-903264-53-6}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724200810/http://www.mom.fr/-Bases-de-donnees-.html Atlas des sites Prochaine-Orient 14000 et 5700 BP - MOM's online application - Atlas of Near East Archaeological Sites 14000 to 5700 BP]

{{Archaeological sites in Lebanon}}

[[Category:Archaeological sites in Lebanon]]

{{Sourceattribution|Tell Zeitoun}}