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Caves in Lebanon · Mysteria

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Caves

Caverns used as shelter, sanctuary or burial place — and often painted.

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🇱🇧 Lebanon

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Cave

Ksar Akil

Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (c.50,000–20,000 BP) · Levallois-Mousterian → IUP → Levantine Aurignacian → Kebaran

Levantine UP type rockshelter (23 m, 50–20 ka, Egbert, IUP→Aurignacian) 10 km NE Beirut.

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Jeita Cave

Middle Palaeolithic to present (c.80,000 BP–modern) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Holocene

Keserwan 9 km karst system (Mousterian–Aurignacian, 5 m speleothems) on Nahr al-Kalb gorge.