Qaa

Qaa القاع El Qaa, Al Qaa
Qaa Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 34°20′37″N 36°28′32″E / 34.34361°N 36.47556°E / 34.34361; 36.47556Coordinates: 34°20′37″N 36°28′32″E / 34.34361°N 36.47556°E / 34.34361; 36.47556
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Beqaa Governorate
District	Baalbek District
Area
• Total	4.98 sq mi (12.91 km2)
Elevation	2,156 ft (657 m)
Population
• Total	12,000
• Density	2,400/sq mi (930/km2)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Shepherd Neolithic flint tools discovered at Kamouh el Hermel. 1. End scraper on a flake. 2. Transverse scraper and awl on a thin flake. 3. Borer on a flake blade. 4. Burin with a wide working edge on a heavy flake. All in matt brown flint.

Qaa (Arabic: القاع), El Qaa, Al Qaa or Masharih al-Qaa is a town in Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon.^[1] It has a mainly Greek Catholic^[2] population.

The village has been the target of attacks from Syrian government and anti-government forces.

History

The Syrian army invaded Lebanon at 4am on 1 September 2012 and kidnapped a farmer from the town as part of escalating incursions during the Syrian civil war. The invasion lasted for forty minutes before the unit withdrew. A house in Qaa had previously been hit by a shell fired by the Syrian army.^[3]

On the 27th of June 2016, at least five people in Qaa were killed and thirteen others wounded in an attack by four suicide bombers.^[4][5]

Archaeology

Along with Maqne I, Qaa is a type site of the Shepherd Neolithic industry. The site is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north west of the town, north of a path leading from Qaa to Hermel. It was discovered by M. Billaux and the materials recovered were documented by Henri Fleisch in 1966.^[6] The area was lightly cultivated with a thin soil covering the conglomerates. The flints were divided into three groups of a reddish brown, light brown and one that was mostly chocolate and grey colored with a radiant "desert shine".^[1]

The Shepherd Neolithic industry can be defined firstly by being small and thick in size, with flakes commonly ranging from 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) to 4 centimetres (1.6 in), the thickness distinguishing them from geometric microliths. Their second characteristic is the limited number of forms that the tools take, apart from cores being transverse racloirs on small flakes, strong-pointed borers, denticulated or notched thick, short blades and end-scrapers. It was thirdly characterized by a lack of known typology, with only occasional use of Levallois technique. It was determined to be definitely later than the Mesolithic but without any usual forms from the Upper Paleolithic or pottery Neolithic. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested the industry to be Epipaleolithic and suggested it may have been used by nomadic shepherds.^[1] The Shepherd Neolithic has largely been ignored and understudied following the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.

See also

• 2006 Qaa airstrike
• Qaa (disambiguation)
• Qaa (Pharaoh)

References

External links

• Qaa Baalbek, Localiban
• Image of the landscape of Qaa including massive stone block

Baalbek District, Beqaa Governorate
Capital: Baalbek
Towns and villages	Ain Ainata Ali El Nahri Arsal Baalbek Barka Bednayel Bechwat Brital Btadhi Bodai Chaat Chlifa Chmestar - Gharbi Baalbeck Deir el Ahmar Douriss Fakiha - Jdeydeh Fleweh Hadath Baalbek Halbata Hallanieh Hazin Hosh Barada Hosh el Rafika Hosh Snid Hosh Tal Safiya Hrebta Iaat Jabbouleh Janta Jdeide Kah Karha Khodr Khraibeh Kasarnaba Laat Labweh Majdloun Mikna Nabi Chit Nabi Othman Nahleh Ram - Jbenniyeh Ras Baalbek Ras el Hadis Saayde Seriine el Fawka Seriine el Tahta Talya Taraya Tayba Temnin el Fawka Temnin el Tahta Tfail Wadi Faara Yammouneh Younine
Other	Ard Tlaili Jabal es Saaïdé

Archaeological sites in Lebanon
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