Holon : a lower Paleolithic site in Israel / editors, Michael Chazan, Liora Kolska Horwitz ; with contributions by Michael Chazan ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chazan, Michael.

Horwitz, Liora Kolska

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Bulletin (American School of Prehistoric Research) ; no. 50.

Bulletin / American School of Prehistoric Research ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Israel--Ḥolon.

Paleolithic period.

Tools, Prehistoric--Israel--Ḥolon.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Stone implements--Israel--Ḥolon.

Stone implements.

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Israel--Ḥolon.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Ḥolon.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Ḥolon (Israel)--Antiquities.

Ḥolon (Israel).

Israel--Ḥolon.

Physical Description:

xvii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2007.

Contents:

The geological setting / Michael Netser and Michael Chazan

Luminescence and electron spin resonance dating / Naomi Porat

Lithic typology / Michael Chazan

Lithic technology / Michael Chazan

Taxon representation and age and sex distributions / Hervé Monchot and Liora Kolska Horwitz

Remains of freshwater turtle / Gideon Hartman and Liora Kolska Horwitz

Sus, hippopotamus, bos, and gazella / Liora Kolska Horwitz and Hervé Monchot

Cervidae / Adrian M. Lister

Palaeoloxodon / Paul Davies and Adrian M. Lister

Faunal taphonomy / Hervé Monchot and Liora Kolska Horwitz

Spatial analysis of lithic artifacts and fauna from Holon / Michael Chazan, Hervé Monchot, and Liora Kolska Horwitz

Holon in the context of the Levantine late lower Paleolithic / Liora Kolska Horwitz and Michael Chazan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-214).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780873655552

0873655559

OCLC:

86109795