Lorraine Copeland

[2] Her father was a neurosurgeon on Harley Street in London, and she was privately educated at Wycombe Abbey girls' school in Buckinghamshire.

[4] She met her American husband, Miles Copeland, Jr., during this period, when he was based in the UK undertaking counter-intelligence for the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps.

They married on 25 September 1942 and soon afterwards Miles' work took them to the Near East, particularly Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, and it was whilst in this area that Copeland first developed her interest in archaeology.

Volume one covered the central portion of the western coast from Tripoli to the North bank of the Litani River and was published in 1965.

A second volume was published in 1966 providing an inventory of Stone Age sites in Southern Lebanon and the Beqaa valley, expanding on the discovery of the Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture, named by Henri Fleisch.