User:Doug Weller/Bedsonuserpage





I am a British Druze and independent researcher in fields of archaeology and sumerology, specialising in the coverage of European and Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, particularly the Archaeology of Lebanon. In 2009 I visited an untested archaeological site north of Mount Hermon in the Aaiha plain, Lebanon. The inter-montane basin is suggested to be the capital site of the agricultural or Neolithic Revolution and possible location of the emmer wheat domestication event. I suggest a connection of the site with the nearby aceramic Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture of Lebanon and have made coverage of this archaeology a primary focus of my work. This culture is suggested to have deforested Lebanon with Heavy Neolithic axes and tools, making way for cultivation of the Neolithic founder crops evidenced with orange slice sickle blades and White Ware proto-pottery silos, paleo-climate information, and the best guesses of archaeologists who have been unable to conduct satisfactory surveys of the north Hermon basins, Temples of Mount Hermon, Temples of the Beqaa Valley and Tells of the Beqaa Valley for various reasons. Evidence was found on site of a reservoir and irrigation channels suggested to have been used in advanced prehistoric, stormwater control and irrigation from the source of the Jordan river, cut through solid limestone bedrock like the trench at Jericho.

The location was first suggested by British scholar Christian O'Brien CBE (former chariman of Anglo-Iranian Oil) to have been described in stories of the Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) in Sumerian literature and the Garden of Eden in Hebraic literature.

The Aaiha hypothesis in my sandbox has put together details of core areas of research into the Aaiha plain and Qaraoun culture. A presentation about the 2009 survey of the site was prepared for Assaad Seif at the Directorate General of Antiquities and Gaby Layoun, the Lebanese Minister of Culture is available for download in Microsoft PowerPoint format here. A French translation has also been sent to Maya Haidar-Boustani and Leila Badre suggesting an academic or UNESCO archaeological survey and government protection of the Aaiha plain. Copies have also been sent to Danielle Stordeur, Frederic Abbes Avi Gopher, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Nigel Goring-Morris and Graeme Barker. UNESCO, National Geographic, Royal Geographical Society, the Council for British Research in the Levant and the Palestine Exploration Fund have all been informed. I have recently formed a facebook group called Save Beqaa Heritage! in order to lobby for increased research and conservation in this woefully understudied area. You are most welcome to follow me there. [http://www.facebook.com/groups/SaveBeqaaHeritage/ Save Beqaa Heritage! Facebook Group] Also now trying to fund excavation of the remains of the watercourse or River of Eden here. 

Details are available in Arabic here.

Articles created

 * My Sandbox

Places

 * Ekur Symbol question.svg Symbol b class.svg
 * Edin (Sumerian term)
 * Enamtila
 * Ehursag
 * Hursag
 * Hubur Symbol question.svg
 * Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) Symbol question.svg Symbol b class.svg
 * Garden of Eden
 * Dilmun (link to Mount Mashu)
 * Rashaya (5x expanded) Symbol question.svg
 * Dahr El Ahmar
 * Majdel Balhis
 * Jdeidet el Khass
 * Ras Baalbek
 * Portingbury Hills
 * Lake Lisan †
 * Lake Beisan †
 * Bouqaia
 * Dail Mòr
 * Beit Lahia (Lebanon)
 * Wadi Khureitun
 * Zouk Mosbeh
 * Bcheale
 * Khalwet el Biyad
 * Wadi al-Taym
 * Kiboreia
 * Arsal
 * Canalizations of Zenobia
 * Cuban underwater city
 * Karak Nuh (5x expanded)
 * Deir Mar Maroun
 * Abred
 * Gwynfyd
 * Ceugant

Temples of the Beqaa Valley

 * Temples of the Beqaa Valley
 * Nahle, Lebanon
 * Yammoune
 * Qasr el Banat, Lebanon
 * Temnin el-Foka
 * Afka
 * Shheem
 * Kafr Zabad

Temples of Mount Hermon

 * Temples of Mount Hermon Symbol b class.svgSymbol question.svg
 * Aaiha Symbol question.svg
 * Kfar Qouq
 * Deir El Aachayer
 * Ain Harcha
 * Yanta (village)
 * Hebbariye
 * Libbaya (Roman temple)
 * Nebi Safa
 * Aaqbe
 * Khirbet El-Knese
 * Bakka, Lebanon
 * Rakleh
 * Burqush
 * Jdeidet Yabous
 * Kafr Hawar
 * Qal'at Bustra
 * Har Senaim
 * Ain Aata
 * Qasr Chbib
 * Mdoukha

Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers and Archdruids

 * Christian O'Brien †
 * George Aaron Barton †
 * Richard Williams Morgan † (inspired)
 * Alexander Thom † (significantly expanded)
 * Anne Macaulay †
 * Euan MacKie
 * Robin Heath
 * Jay Kappraff
 * John Anthony West
 * Tom Brooks (writer)
 * Charles William Meredith van de Velde
 * Manuel Iturralde-Vinent
 * Aplahanda
 * Yatar-Ami
 * Yahdul-Lim
 * Christine James
 * Taliesin Williams
 * Thomas Simpson (engineer)
 * Hugh Montgomery (historian)
 * Charles Isaac Stevens
 * Leon Chechemian
 * Günther Thomann
 * Bo Gabriel Montgomery
 * Beauregard Houston-Montgomery

Bibliogaphies

 * List of scientific publications by Manuel Iturralde-Vinent

Religious figures

 * Saint Cyllin
 * Saint Eigen
 * Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin Symbol question.svg
 * Theandrios
 * Atomus
 * Baal-Hermon
 * King Puru
 * Patriarch Elias of Antioch
 * Siculus
 * Chuldu
 * Hermuthruda
 * Thane of Calder
 * Thane of Fife
 * Eleazar (High Priest)
 * Manasseh (High Priest)
 * Jesus, son of Fabus
 * Simon son of Boethus

Events

 * Menai Massacre
 * Out Of The Ordinary Festival Symbol question.svg
 * Megalithomania

Concepts

 * Astronomical Complex
 * Wandlebury Enigma
 * Decad (Sumerian texts) Symbol question.svg
 * Divine call Symbol question.svg
 * Divine council (5x Expanded)
 * Ukkin
 * History of sport (Expanded)
 * Neo-Celtic Christianity

Organisations

 * inSpiral Lounge Symbol question.svg
 * Whirl-Y-Gig
 * Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée
 * Museum of Lebanese Prehistory Symbol question.svg
 * Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut Symbol question.svg
 * Ministry of Culture (Lebanon)
 * Directorate General of Antiquities
 * International Institute for Prehistoric Research Cantabria
 * Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
 * Lebanese ISBN Agency
 * Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage
 * Save Beirut Heritage
 * World Heritage Centre
 * Syrian archaeological heritage under threat
 * Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum
 * Lebanese Civil Defense
 * Traveler's Library
 * Raglan Library
 * Welsh Manuscripts Society
 * Ancient British Church
 * Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (5 x Expanded)

Qualifications

 * BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Categories Created

 * Category:Heavy Neolithic sites
 * Category:Trihedral Neolithic sites
 * Category:Shepherd Neolithic sites
 * Category:Mayroubian sites
 * Category:Khiamian sites
 * Category:Lebanese pottery
 * Category:Syrian pottery
 * Category:Lebanese archaeologists
 * Category:Syrian archaeologists
 * Category:Populated places in the Rashaya District
 * Category:Cuban geologists
 * Category:Cuban paleontologists
 * Category:Megalithic monuments in the Middle East

Templates Created

 * Template:Archaeological sites in Lebanon
 * Template:Heavy Neolithic sites
 * Template:Middle Eastern megaliths
 * Template:Pseudo-Gnostic apocrypha

Stone Age industries near Aaiha

 * Heavy Neolithic
 * Trihedral Neolithic
 * Shepherd Neolithic

Stone Age cultures near Aaiha

 * Qaraoun culture
 * Tahunian culture
 * Mayroubian
 * Chalossian
 * Tabunian
 * Chelleo-Acheulean
 * Micro-Mousterian

Archaeologists with work near Aaiha

 * Assaad Seif
 * Maya Haïdar Boustani
 * Leila Badre
 * Bassam Jamous
 * Frédéric Abbès
 * Danielle Stordeur
 * Henri de Contenson
 * Nigel Goring-Morris
 * Avi Gopher
 * Willem van Zeist Symbol question.svg
 * Jean Perrot
 * Diana Kirkbride †
 * Jacques Cauvin † Symbol question.svg
 * Jean Pouilloux †
 * Henri Fleisch †
 * Francis Hours †
 * Auguste Bergy †
 * Godefroy Zumoffen †
 * Paul Bovier-Lapierre †
 * Raoul Desribes †
 * Maurice Tallon
 * Jacques Tixier
 * Alfred Rust †
 * Denis Buzy †
 * Oliver Aurenche †
 * Moshe Stekelis †
 * Louis Burkhalter †
 * Peter Akkermans
 * George F. Taylor

Sumerian Myths about Aaiha

 * Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
 * Barton Cylinder (inspired and expanded)
 * Debate between sheep and grain Symbol question.svg
 * Debate between Winter and Summer Symbol question.svg
 * Enlil and Ninlil Symbol question.svg
 * Old Babylonian oracle
 * Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
 * Kesh temple hymn Symbol question.svg Symbol b class.svg
 * Hymn to Enlil Symbol question.svg
 * Lament for Ur Symbol question.svg
 * Song of the hoe Symbol question.svg
 * Gudea cylinders Symbol question.svg Symbol b class.svg
 * Atrahasis* (Lambert and Millard part 1, Watercourse rebellion section)
 * Book of Enoch* (Journey from Hermon to Eden section)
 * Torah*
 * Quran* (Jannah)
 * Bible* (Genesis, Ezekiel, Revelation)
 * British Edda

Sumerian people

 * Suzianna
 * Belit Ilani
 * Nuska
 * Acgi
 * Urshanabi

Ancient pottery

 * White Ware Symbol question.svg
 * Dark Faced Burnished Ware

Ancient lithics

 * Gigantolith
 * Orange slice
 * Emireh point
 * Ksar Akil flake
 * Grattoir de côté
 * Canaanean blade
 * Minet ed Dhalia point

Ancient writing

 * Epistles of Wisdom Symbol b class.svg
 * McClelland Sherd
 * Tablet of Shamash Symbol question.svg
 * Acts of Peter (Simon Magus death section)
 * Book of Noah (Royal Messiah description section)
 * The British Edda
 * Coelbren Rhodd
 * Chichester inscription
 * Barddas
 * Iolo Manuscripts
 * Coelbren y Beirdd
 * Saint Paul in Britain
 * The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
 * The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
 * Pseudo-John
 * Pseudo-Dorotheus
 * Pseudo-Simon
 * Pseudo-Mark
 * Pseudo-Matthew
 * Pseudo-Luke
 * Pseudo-Crato
 * Pseudo-Abdias
 * Pseudo-Linus
 * Pseudo-Melitus
 * Pseudo-Marcellus
 * Pseudo-Ephraem
 * Pseudo-Ambrose
 * Pseudo-Jerome
 * Pseudo-Augustine
 * Pseudo-Gregory
 * Pseudo-Sophronius
 * Pseudo-Epiphanios
 * Koinonos
 * Ho Tektōn
 * Legend of Mary Magdalene
 * Genealogy of the Kings of Mercia
 * Manuscripts of the Prose Edda

Ancient measuring

 * Measuring rod Symbol question.svg
 * Megalithic Yard
 * Dalgety bone bead
 * Patrickholme bone bead
 * Metrological Relief

Ancient chronology

 * ASPRO chronology
 * Waddell's chronology
 * Middle chronology

Ancient buildings

 * Antae temple
 * Centenarium
 * Gasr

Ancient events

 * Aonach (event)
 * Tailteann games (expanded)

Ancient genealogies

 * Langfedgetal
 * Vespasian B VI
 * Lineages of Outremer

Ancient monuments

 * MacDuff's Cross

Ancient peoples

 * Iclingas

Bodmin Moor Astronomical Complex

 * Craddock Moor stone circle
 * Stannon stone circle
 * Goodaver stone circle
 * Fernacre
 * The Pipers
 * Trippet stones
 * Stripple stones
 * Nine stones
 * Leaze stone circle
 * Brown Willy Cairns Symbol question.svg
 * Brown Gelly
 * Showery Tor

Other Megaliths

 * Tower of Jericho Symbol question.svg
 * Scorhill Symbol question.svg
 * Balquhain Symbol question.svg
 * Duloe stone circle
 * Leper Stone

Sites damaged during the Syrian civil war

 * Mar Assia Al-Hakim Church

Lebanese fish

 * Phoxinellus libani

Archaeological sites near Aaiha

 * Archaeology of Lebanon updated

Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Lebanon
 * Qaraoun I
 * Qaraoun II
 * Aadloun II (Bezez Cave)
 * Sidon III
 * Mtaileb I
 * Akbiyeh
 * Beit Mery II
 * Jbaa (Archaeology section)
 * Jebel Aabeby
 * Joub Jannine III
 * Dekwaneh
 * Ourrouar
 * Hadeth south
 * Tell Mureibit
 * Kefraya
 * Tell Khardane
 * Dakoue
 * Tell Zenoub
 * Nabi Zair
 * Majdel Anjar
 * Bustan Birke
 * Douris (Baalbek)
 * Amlaq Qatih
 * Kfar Tebnit
 * Tayibe (Lebanon)
 * Taire II
 * Khallet Michte
 * Ard Saouda
 * Plain of Zghorta
 * Sarepta
 * Kfar Abida (Fadous Sud)
 * Baidar ech Chamout
 * Wadi Koura
 * Wadi Yaroun
 * Flaoui
 * Akkar plain foothills
 * Khallet el Hamra
 * Douwara
 * Al-Bireh, Lebanon
 * Tell Ain el Meten

Heavy Neolithic sites of the Qaraoun culture in Palestine
 * Wadi al-Far'a
 * Wadi Fa'rah
 * Shemouniyeh‎
 * Wadi Sallah

Tahunian culture sites in Palestine
 * Wadi Tahuna

Trihedral Neolithic sites
 * Joub Jannine II
 * Sin el Fil (archaeology section)
 * Kfar Tebnit

Shepherd Neolithic sites
 * Maqne I
 * Qaa (archaeology & Syrian invasion sections)
 * Hermel I
 * Hermel II
 * Douris (Baalbek)
 * Wadi Boura
 * Kamouh el Hermel
 * Qalaat Tannour
 * Rayak North
 * Riha Station
 * Saraain El Faouqa

Archaeological sites in Lebanon
 * Jeita Grotto (archaeology section, Jeita I to IV)
 * Ksar Akil (expanded)
 * Antelias cave †
 * Beirut (archaeology section, Beirut I to VII)
 * Ras Beirut (archaeology section, Ras Beirut I to XIV)
 * Mayrouba
 * Tell Baalbek
 * Neba'a Faour Symbol question.svg
 * Nachcharini
 * Labweh Symbol question.svg
 * Jabal es Saaïdé
 * Kaukaba Station
 * Moukhtara
 * Ras El Kelb
 * Hashbai
 * Ard Tlaili
 * Ras Baalbek I
 * Tell Neba'a Litani
 * Tell Ain Nfaikh
 * Tell Ain Saouda
 * Tell Jisr
 * Aammiq
 * Tell Zeitoun
 * Sands of Beirut Symbol question.svg
 * Tahun ben Aissa
 * Tell Deir
 * Ain Jaouze
 * Kamid al lawz (expanded)
 * Byblos (archaeology section)
 * Haret ech Cheikh
 * Bechamoun (archaeology section)
 * Qaraoun III
 * Phoenician port of Beirut

Archaeological sites in Syria
 * Tell Aswad
 * Tell Ghoraifé Symbol question.svg
 * Tell Ramad Symbol question.svg
 * El Kowm Symbol question.svg
 * Bouqras
 * Qdeir
 * Tell Khazzami
 * Tell Marj
 * Tell Ezou Symbol question.svg
 * Tell Halula Symbol question.svg
 * Tell Kazel
 * Phoenician stadium and Necropolis of Amrit
 * Tell Sakka
 * Tell Sabi Abyad (Collaboration with Yazan (talk) Symbol question.svg
 * Sarmada (archaeology sections)
 * Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing (archaeology section)
 * Qasr al-Banat

Archaeological sites in Israel and Palestine
 * Munhata
 * Gilgal I
 * El Khiam
 * Horvet Galil
 * Mujahia
 * Hatula Symbol question.svg
 * Kfar Giladi (expanded)
 * Nahal Besor (expanded)
 * Hamadia (expanded)
 * Dan (ancient city) (Megalith)

Archaeological sites in Jordan
 * Beidha Symbol question.svg
 * Iraq ed-Dubb Symbol question.svg
 * ZAD 2
 * Amman (Megalith)

Archaeological sites in Egypt
 * Abu Madi Symbol question.svg
 * Qasr el Banat

Archaeological sites in Iran
 * Huto and Kamarband Caves
 * Kharg island (Archaeology section)

Archaeological sites in Iraq
 * Nemrik 9
 * Barda Balka

Archaeological sites in Turkey
 * Cafer Höyük

Archaeological sites in Yemen
 * Tihamah (Archaeology section)

Archaeological sites in Iran
 * Tihamah (Archaeology section)

Archaeological sites in Russia
 * Russian Geoglyph

Archaeological sites in Libya
 * Gasr Banat

Lebanese politicians

 * Gaby Layoun

Tibetan politicians

 * Paljor Dorje Shatra


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