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SITE ID - NAME :	R1	Rutba
ANCIENT NAME :	-
OTHER NAME :	-
LOCATION :	West Iraq, Ramadi
CHRONOLOGY :	Paleolithic; Neolithic
PERIOD CODE :	1 2
DESCRIPTION :	Open air Middle Paleolithic (ca. 100,000-40,000 BC) and Neolithic site near the Wadi Hauran in the desert near the Jordanian border. The site is marked by stone tools. The Middle Paleolithic artefacts consist of cores, some shaped according to the Levallois technique, retouched pieces and unretouched flakes and blades. The Neolithic tools are part of the Wualian tradition, nowadays more often designated as 'burin sites' (typical of the Palmyra Basin, the Azraq Basin and the Black Desert in eastern Jordan). Probably these sites are largely Aceramic, but continuation in the Ceramic Neolithic is probable. Burins were most numerous, but in addition some cores, retouched pieces (e.g. truncations and scrapers) and unretouched flakes and blades were found.
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