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Lithic Technology of Neolithic Syria

Author : Yoshihiro Nishiaki

Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 20,67 MB

Release : 2000

Category : History

ISBN :

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The analysis and interpretation of lithics and lithic technology is an important part of reconstructing cultural development in prehistoric societies. In this study, Yoshihiro Nishiaki examines lithic material from four Neolithic sites in Syria (Douara Cave II, Tell Damishliyya, Tell Nebi Mend and Tell Kashkashok II) as well as more general discussions of methodology, cha ne op ratoire, and the behavioural aspects of lithic procurement and production. Concomitant changes in subsistence, settlement, social and economic organisation are also discussed within the context of the Neolithic period in the Near East.





The Neolithic Lithic Industry at Tell Ain El-Kerkh

Author : Makoto Arimura

Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 16,87 MB

Release : 2020-04-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1789694574

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This book presents the first attempt to unveil the Neolithisation process in northwest Syria, with the techno-typological studies of the flintstone implements from Tell Ain el-Kerkh in the Rouj basin in Idlib, an important large Neolithic site occupied from the from the 9th to the 7th millennium BC.



Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East

Author : John J. Shea

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 44,54 MB

Release : 2013-02-28

Category : History

ISBN : 1107006988

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This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.



Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies

Author : Rachel A. Horowitz

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 26,62 MB

Release : 2019-06-21

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1607328925

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Lithic Technologies in SedentarySocieties examines lithic technology from ancient societies in Mesoamerica, the Near East, South Asia, and North America, showcasing the important contributions in-depth lithic analysis can make to the study of sedentary societies around the world. Using cutting-edge analytical techniques these case studies address difficult anthropological questions concerning economic, social, and political issues, as well as global trends in lithic production. Lithic analysis focused on sedentary societies, especially in places like Mesoamerica, has previously been neglected mostly because of the high frequency of informal tools, but such bias limits the ways in which both lithic production and economic organization are investigated. Bringing the importance of studying such technologies to the fore and emphasizing the vital anthropological questions that lithics can answer, Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies is a valuable resource for scholars and students of lithic technology and sedentary, complex societies. Contributors: Fumi Arakawa, Mary A. Davis, James Enloe, Dan Healan, Francesca Manclossi, Theodore Marks, Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Jason S. R. Paling, Steve Rosen, John Whittaker



Lithics After the Stone Age

Author : Steven A. Rosen

Publisher : Rowman Altamira

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 29,97 MB

Release : 1997

Category : History

ISBN : 9780761991243

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Not everyone bought into the Bronze Age right away, and Rosen describes and classifies the stone tools that continued to be made and used in the Middle East for the next two thousand years. He considers subtypes, function, distribution, chronology, the organization of production, styles, the relationship between lithic and metal technology, and other aspects. Over 100 drawings and maps provide archaeologists with a guide to identifying finds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR





Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East

Author : Borrell, Ferran

Publisher : Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Page : 543 pages

File Size : 23,56 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 8449044863

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This volume compiles the papers presented at the seventh edition of the Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, held in Barcelona from 14 to 17 February 2012. This series of conferences/workshops started nineteen years ago - the first meeting was organised in Berlin in 1993 - and is devoted to the study of the lithic record in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East and neighbouring regions. The seventh of these conferences was organised by the Institució Milà i Fontanals (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and the Prehistory Department (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This volume includes a total number of 36 articles, covering a wide range of topics and disciplines related to lithic studies in the Levant over a long chronological time span (from the final stages of the Epipalaeolithic/Natufian to the Halaf period). The publication of the conference proceedings is thus an interesting synthesis of the current state of lithic studies on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East, and consolidates this specific series of conferences as a key tool to maintain and stimulate the vitality of high quality research into the Near Eastern lithic record.



Lithic Technology

Author : William Andrefsky, Jr

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 31,68 MB

Release : 2008-09-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780521888271

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The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints, and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes, and retouch measurement. Data sets cover a broad geographic and temporal span, including examples from France during the Paleolithic, the Near East during the Neolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia, Australia, and Italy. North American examples are derived from Paleoindian times to historic period aboriginal populations throughout the United States and Canada.



Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East

Author : John J. Shea

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 427 pages

File Size : 13,75 MB

Release : 2013-02-28

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1139619381

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Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago. It is intended both as an introduction to this lithic evidence for students and as a resource for researchers working with Paleolithic and Neolithic stone tool evidence. Written by a lithic analyst and professional flintknapper, this book systematically examines variation in technology, typology, and industries for the Lower, Middle, and Upper Paleolithic; the Epipaleolithic; and Neolithic periods in the Near East. It is extensively illustrated with drawings of stone tools. In addition to surveying the lithic evidence, the book also considers ways in which archaeological treatment of this evidence could be changed to make it more relevant to major issues in human origins research. A final chapter shows how change in stone tool designs points to increasing human dependence on stone tools across the long sweep of Stone Age prehistory.