Hummal, located in the El-Kowm area of central Syria, is a reference site for the Paleolithic of the Levantine hinterland thanks to its archaeological sequence of deposits from the Lower to the Upper Paleolithic.
Tool: a spear.
length: 12 cm.
Material: flint.
Era: Paleaolithic.
Provenance: Biʾr al-Hummal (Homs Governorate).
Currently at the National Museum of Damascus.
Photo: Nicholas Randall.
Dorota Wojtczak and Jean-Marie Le Tensorer. The Long Paleolithic Sequence of Hummal (Central Syria). 2018.
ʾIḍāʾāt ʿalā al-Matḥaf al-Waṭanī fī Dimašq. DGAM (Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées de Syrie). Ministère de la Culture, 2006.
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