Heavy Neolithic Heavy Neolithic Heavy Neolithic (alternatively, Gigantolithic) is a style of large stone and flint tools (or industry) associated primarily with the Qaraoun culture in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, dating to the Epipaleolithic or early Pre-pottery Neolithic at the end of the Stone Age. The type site for the Qaraoun culture is Qaraoun II. The term "Heavy Neolithic" was translated by Lorraine Copeland and Peter J. Wescombe from Henri Fleisch's term ""gros Neolithique"", suggested by Dorothy Garrod (in a letter dated February 1965) for adoption to describe the particular flint industry that was identified at sites near Qaraoun in the Beqaa
Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art in the British Isles the research into rock art has been undertaken by amateurs rather than professional archaeologists, to varying degrees of quality. In 1997, archaeologist Richard Bradley of the University of Reading published "Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe", the first study of such petroglyphs across Atlantic Europe. In 1999, Stan Beckensall published "British Prehistoric Rock Art", the first regional overview of the island's rock art. The purposes of Neolithic and Bronze Age petroglyphs in the British Isles have long been debated, with amateur rock art researcher Ronald Morris listing 104 different proposals that he had encountered, ranking them according to