La ocupación prehistórica al oeste de Homs: Campañas de 2008 (original) (raw)

Abstract

Jeftelik is an example of a site with early Natufian levels, dated around 12,000 cal BC. At the moment we have detected elements of a building structure. This is a pit whose walls were reinforced with stones. Its size and shape suggest that this building was a human dwelling. Parallels are known of half-buried huts, with stone walls reinforcing the pit walls, at several Natufian sites, like Ain-Mallaha, Baaz or Dederiyeh. The test excavations at Tell Marj have revealed a pottery Neolithic site, dated to about 6000 calBC. The site of Tell Ezou has revealed Bronze Age and Chalcolithic archaeological levels. The megalithic necropolis at Orontes (Qattina) and the Bouqaia, pose interesting interpretation problems in terms of the identification of the human groups who built these tombs. The geoarchaeological survey of the Bouqaia basin has demonstrated the enormous potential of the area for the study of environmental changes during the Holocene.

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