Wadi Chahrour

Ourrouar

Alternate name	Ourrouar I, Ourrouar II, Ourrouar III, Ourrouar IV
Location	8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) south southeast of Beirut, Lebanon
History
Periods	Heavy Neolithic, Neolithic
Cultures	Qaraoun culture
Site notes
Archaeologists	Lorraine Copeland, Henri Fleisch
Condition	built up
Public access	Yes

Ourrouar is a series of archaeological sites approximately 8.5 kilometres (5.3 mi) south southeast of Beirut, Lebanon. It is near Hadeth south on the north side of the Nahr Ghedir.

Ourrouar I is 300 metres (980 ft) east of the bridge over Nahr Ghedir on a platform of sandy, brown soilNeogene conglomerates on sloping river terraces to the south of the road to Wadi Chahrour. The deposits appear to have been moved from elsewhere, so it is suggested to be a false site by Lorraine Copeland, who found it in 1964 and collected tools made out of shiny, yellow flint that were examined by Henri Fleisch and M. Gigout. Middle Paleolithic forms were found in including Levallois tortoise cores, point-cores, scrapers and flakes that are similar in form to the assemblage found at Mazraat Beit Chaar. Material is held by the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.

Ourrouar II is 500 metres (1,600 ft) east of the bridge over Nahr Ghedir on slopes of cemented conglomerates behind two empty houses. The site was discovered and Heavy Neolithic material recovered along with traces of other morphologies by Peter Wescombe in 1965. Finds included a rough, celt-shaped axe, numerous short, heavy picks, a chopper, burins, flakes and blades in poor quality grey flint, several of which were rather large in size. Another smaller group of tools was found on the lower and western slopes made of flint that had patinated to white that included steep-scrapers and sickle blade elements. The lower slopes of the site were destroyed during new road construction. Material is held by the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory.Andrew Moore suggested that the station was a factory site for Heavy Neolithic tools of the Qaraoun culture.

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