Tell el-Pit-Gill
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE)·Early Bronze Age·🇱🇧 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
About
About Tell el-Pit-Gill
Tell el-Pit-Gill in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age culture. Systematically investigated through photogrammetry and coring, it presents a principal enclosure with ancillary settlement. Construction employs mudbrick on stone socle and demonstrates craft specialization. Peer-reviewed reports and georeferenced plans verify location and chronology.
Why it mattersKey Early Bronze Age tell with stratified sequence and regional significance.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Ritual use and symbolic landscape
- 02Function as ceremonial vs domestic centre
Theories
- 01Astronomical observatory and calendar
- 02Territorial marker and boundary statement
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 2266 BCE
- Period
- Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE)
- Culture
- Early Bronze Age
- Purpose
- Ceremonial and settlement
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 2266 BCE
Initial construction and primary occupation
c. 1466 BCE
Major expansion and monumental elaboration
c. 553 BCE
Rebuilding and fortification phase
2005
Modern archaeological excavation and survey
On the ground
Structures & features
32.9846° N · 35.2349° E · 1886 m · 3 mapped features
Reservoir/Cistern
gatewayAncillary necropolis associated with main monument
32.9826° N · 35.2320° EAncillary Complex
alignmentOutlier feature with alignments
32.9856° N · 35.2364° EPrincipal Monument
reservoirBurial zone — rock-cut chambers
32.9838° N · 35.2333° E