Moukhtara

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

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Locality: مختارة
Region: محافظة جبل لبنان
Country: لبنان
Population: 0

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Ancient site.name: Moukhtara
Ancient site.image: HARVEY(1861) p008 PALACE OF SAID BAG JUMBULAH AT MOKTARAH.jpg
Ancient site.caption: The Jumblatt family palace in Moukhtara, 1861
Ancient site.map_type: Lebanon
Ancient site.location: 30 miles from Beirut, Lebanon
Ancient site.region: Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate
Ancient site.part_of: Settlement
Ancient site.material: tools, flint, bone, ceramics
Ancient site.epochs: PPNB, Neolithic
Ancient site.excavations: 1963
Ancient site.archaeologists: J. Cauvin
Ancient site.condition: ruins
Ancient site.public_access: Yes

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== 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. 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."