Ras El Kelb is a truncated seaside cave and Paleolithic settlement located on the low-lying (5 m (16 ft)) coast of Lebanon, 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Beirut.

[1] Rescue excavations were carried out in 1959 by Dorothy Garrod and G.

[2] They dug 2 trenches named the 'Rail' and 'Tunnel' trenches, from which they recovered over 30,000 flint artefacts of a wide variety for statistical analysis from 22 geological layers.

[4] They also discovered a tooth suggested to belong to a Neanderthal.

It was suggested that the inhabitants were expert at hunting gazelle using the flints recovered.