Jebel Aabeby

{{short description|Archaeological site in Lebanon}}

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|location = {{convert|2|km|mi}} southeast of Sidon, Lebanon

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|type = terraces

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|epochs = Heavy Neolithic, Neolithic

|cultures = Qaraoun culture

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|excavations = 1965

|archaeologists = Henri Fleisch, V. Hankey and Lorraine Copeland

|condition = under cultivation

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Jebel Aabeby is an archaeological site approximately {{convert|2|km|mi}} southeast of Sidon, to the west of the road north to Qraye in Lebanon.{{cite book|author1=Lorraine Copeland|author2=P. Wescombe|title=Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YsRRwAACAAJ|access-date=21 July 2011|year=1965|publisher=Imprimerie Catholique}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|author=Francis Hours|title=Atlas des sites du proche orient (14000-5700 BP)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlZtAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 September 2012|year=1994|publisher=Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen|isbn=978-2-903264-53-6}} The site is on a hill where a number of Cedar trees surround the Mar Elias monastery on the western side of the summit. A Heavy Neolithic assemblage of flint tools made by the Qaraoun culture was collected from some Olive terraces bordering on the road and from an area above them that was disturbed in the construction of a trackway. The flint was of a brown, Nummulitic, Eocene type, some having been patinated to white while others were found fresh. Several broad blades were found along with heavy scrapers on flakes, massive cores, rabots, racloirs and a few smaller scrapers. The material now stored in the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory was studied by Henri Fleisch, who concluded that the site was likely used as a prehistoric factory.