Ras Beirut

Ras Beirut ("Tip of Beirut") is an upscale residential neighborhood of Beirut. It has sizable populations of Christians, Muslims, Druze, and secular individuals who have peacefully coexisted over the century. Ras Beirut is home to Beirut's most aristocratic families such as the Beyhum family, the Daouk family, the Itani family, the Sinno family and so on. It is known as the cultural and intellectual center of Beirut.It incorporates a number of international schools and universities, of which the most famous is the American University of Beirut (AUB) and International College Beirut (IC). The area is also a melting pot of sorts with students from all over the world residing within its quarters.

In 1946, Henri Fleisch from Saint Joseph University made an unstratified, open-air survey of the marine terraces of Ras Beirut recovering various artifacts. Flints have also been recovered by walkers on the nearby beaches. The area is separated from the Sands of Beirut sites by the Wadi Abu Chahine or "South Creek" which begins south of the Continental Hotel area. It is an important site for Quaternary studies and has been published in various works by Fleisch, Auguste Bergy in 1932, L. Dubertret in 1940 and 1948, Wright in 1960 and 1962,Raoul Describes in 1921,Dorothy Garrod in 1960 and R. Neuville in 1933. Stratified sites are numbered in chronological order with unstratified sites at the end. The first four sites contain stratified Lower Paleolithic industries from the 45 metres (148 ft) beach level, the next five are stratified Middle Paleolithic with a gap in stratified sites to the Chalcolithic found at site XI. Intervening periods including the Levalloiso-Mousterian were well represented in surface finds along with a substantial amount of Neolithic material on a 45 metres (148 ft) terrace. Collections are held in the American University of Beirut and the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory. Many of the sites have been built on and completely destroyed by urbanization.

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